![]() The best original albums and collections of Parker’s music include, “Charlie Parker with Strings” (1950), “Charlie Parker with Strings Vol.2” (1950), “Charlie Parker” (1953), “Big Band” (1954), “Summit Meeting at Birdland” (1977), “At Storyville” (1985), “The Genius of Charlie Parker” (1954), “The Charlie Parker Story” (1956), “The Genius of Charlie Parker” (1957), “Anthology” (1974), “Charlie Parker on Dial” (1974), “Bird/The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)” (1974), “The Very Best of Bird” (1977), “The Complete Studio Savoy Recordings” (1978), “Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve” (1988), “Bird: The Original Recordings of Charlie Parker” (1988), “Masterworks 1946–47” (1990), “Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection” (1997). Parker moved back to New York City where he died, in 1955. He was often in bad shape at recording sessions and needed, at times, to be physically supported by others. Parker then moved to Los Angeles where heroin was difficult to find, and he began to drink heavily to compensate. That session and its recordings would become a watershed moment for bebop music.īy this time, Parker’s heroin addiction was causing him to miss gigs, and he resorted to busking on New York City streets to support his addiction. In summer 1945, Parker and his friends recorded “Ko-ko” and other sides at a session for the Savoy label. He would soon be collaborating with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell, and others. Parker’s experimentation with tempo, quick key and chord changes would become hallmarks of this new jazz subgenre. His experimentation constituted some of the early developments of be-bop music, a subgenre of jazz with which he would forever be linked. In the early Forties, Parker was experimenting with soloing methods. Parker quit the McShann band in 1939, and headed to New York City to begin a solo career. Wayne Shorter was among eight new compositions. His morphine addiction would lead to a heroin addiction which would contribute to his early death at age 34. Pianist and composer Helen Sung is the winner of the 2022 Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize, which was presented by the performing rights organization BMI at its Jazz Composers Workshop’s Annual Summer Showcase at Dizzy’s Club in New York City on June 13. While in his teens, Parker had become addicted to morphine after being administered the drug in hospital after a car accident. He practiced diligently in the late Thirties, and by 1938, he was good enough to join the band of pianist Jay McShann. He began to play the saxophone at age 11, and had joined a musician’s union instead of attending high school. Parker was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920. Parker was nicknamed “Yardbird” which was eventually shortened to simply, “Bird.” Many of his compositions, including “Yardbrid Suite” and “Ornithology” would be inspired by that nickname. Parker’s drug-addicted life and early demise is jazz legend and a tragic example which would be repeated by several jazz musicians who followed him. He is one of the few jazz musicians who could rival the technical brilliance and originality of Louis Armstrong and Art Tatum. Saxophonist Charlie Parker is considered by many to be the best musician in the history of jazz. ![]()
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