The Genius of Charlie Parker

[@charlieparker4928]

I’m very humbled by this video, thank you

[@SoundFieldPBS]

spooky but you're welcome!

[@BassVoyager2000]

Hey Bird! Can you play a gig this thursday in SF? 7-10pm $100.

[@tylerm6597]

Hey Bird can you play at my sister's wedding 3-8pm $1200

[@allen6924]

@@tylerm6597 my fee or the whole band?

[@grantkoeller8911]

Who would steal birds picture and name and make a youtube account??

[@deltaqed]

"A strong rhythm, is better than a good note" bits of knowledge that changes composers

[@theonewithoutidentity]

Depends on the genre, but generally I agree.

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Its taken me years to realize this :)

[@devonarmstrong7045]

This exact thought process is what got me to understand improv more, it doesn’t matter the quantity of the notes as much the rhythm

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

Delta QED:: Strawinsky had the same notion: The rhythm determines the music, also in a single line there are heavy points, but then again, listen to Strawinsky: Rhythm is SO many things. I would like to emphasize that the complexity of Ellington's "head arrangements" are so strong that a classical conductor said to me, misbelieving, "how can that be done" - you and I know that every musician in such a band was able to create and understand every aspect of those great arrangements. In a sense every one of them were geniuses.

[@lennyluzitano8920]

Yeah I agree...the strong rhythm is. The. Stimulus for the notes...not note...melody is a group of notes..= phrases..melody movement...ascending...descending.. Alternating...matematical...distances...intrrvals...not one note...

[@chaewonsglasses]

y'all back now, huh? I missed you so much, guys!

[@SoundFieldPBS]

The pandemic has been challenging but we are working on bringing y'all more and more. Teasing upcoming stuff on our insta @soundfieldpbs

[@chaewonsglasses]

oop- I'm gonna go follow y'all, right now.

[@MLHunt]

This channel's ability to provide a deeper understanding of music in an accessible way is truly a public service. Thanks for all you guys do.

[@KansasCityPBS]

HONORED to be a part of this project and share about KC's own Charlie 'Bird' Parker! So much info that we had to cut. Incredible musician who changed not just Jazz but all music. Thanks Sound Field.

[@rillloudmother]

bird lives!

[@red_ford23]

B I R D L I V E S

[@Bati_]

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there is no boundary line to art." -- Charlie Parker (Bird) Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the one and only visionary, iconoclast extraordinaire legend of music. We owe him a lot and thanks for spreading awareness on this! I'm so glad to see you again! ❤️🙏

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Missing you always Bati

[@sunra59]

A friend of mine used to whistle Charlie Parker riffs when we went out for a drink back in the 80's. He worked in the local record library, so he had access to all kinds of great music. I was curious about those riffs and eventually started listening to the full tunes. For many years I had a Walkman Jazz cassette tape of Charlie Parker. The tunes on that old cassette are still some of my favourites of his - 'Blues for Alice', 'KC Blues', 'Star Eyes', 'Bloomdido', 'Au Privave', and 'Just Friends' in particular. I guess that's what friends are for!

[@irlzy]

awesome! thank you for sharing :)

[@gusmarrero]

A perfect Summary of bird. Thanks

[@JMUSICEnsembleOfficial]

Thank you for educating the people, brother. ✊🏾🙌🏾

[@BobSell]

Thanks for the education and history lesson! Well done!!

[@larrystaples1842]

Terrific video......

[@raucousgeorge]

Never seen a geographical breakdown of the origins of jazz and the differences in style between different areas before. That was awesome

[@jayfogelman]

This is a superb documentary.

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

I'm surprised no one has made a video about how Miles Davis created Fusion yet

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

Who joined Parker's group in the later end of the 40s if I remember right, so you could say his tutelage under Parker paved the way for all the "radical" forms of Jazz, like Fusion, Modal, Hard/Post Bop and Free Jazz.

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

@@kaiburns My comment was more on how Charlie Parker's influence (as well as the rest of the NY scene of the time) paved the way for the later experimental styles to thrive. And it's not like Miles didn't own up to purposefully recruiting key players/rising stars of each era to advance his own groups/artistic endeavors (the dude straight up told Stevie Wonder he'd steal Michael Henderson from him). Knowing who to collaborate with / "seeing the writings on the wall" were arguably among his greatest talents.

[@jpwjr1199]

@@kaiburns Miles didn't pioneer fusion, either. Larry Coryell?! C'Mon!

[@davidwicks9538]

Because Miles didn't 'Create' Fusion⁉️💯 There are numerous other musicians and Artist that should be considered❗ Work songs🥁Spirituals, Armstrong🎺, Fats🎹 Waller, Big Bands🥁, Louis Jordan,🎶 Jazz Crusaders, Ramsey Lewis, etc. preceded Miles, who was an influence, Yes, but NOT first;🎸🥁 R&B🎼 is Fusion if you want to be Technical! Herbie & Tony may have started experimenting with (so called) 'fusion' before Miles⁉️💯 Jis' Sayin' " FREE BILL COSBY"

[@hangthedj3206]

No he wasn't lol

[@bri1085]

Yay, Sound Field is back

[@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield]

As Miles Davis put it, you can summarize Jazz in 4 words: Louis Armstrong, representing early era jazz/rag and swing; Charlie Parker, later jazz that became more unconventional/artistically driven.

[@gribo.9543]

thats way more than 4 words

[@NZsaltz]

@@gribo.9543 the four words are Louie Armstrong, Charlie Parker. they just explained it

[@gribo.9543]

@@NZsaltz yeah i was doing a cute lil joke

[@bottomendbliss]

He wasnt an entertainer, he was an artist. Love it. Clears that up nicely.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Agreed Charlie Parker is my inspiration as well he blew me away when I first listen to him on KZbin few years ago he was a league of his own.

[@grantkoeller8911]

What Bird did, was extend the vocabulary of improvisation, by soloing in the extended harmony of the 9th, 11th, and the 13th. instead of just staying with the chord tones of 1, 3, 5, and 7, so commonly used by the older swing and dixieland soloists.

[@normanlovesirsaxalot2991]

As an upcoming sax improviser- hearing Bird was like discovering the Holy Grail...father preston Love, a great lead altoist, formerly Basies 1st altoist told me; Suddenly Bird was the order of the day.You couldnt avoid learning and playing bird

[@bobcharlie2337]

I love this series. It's the best.

[@darthbee18]

Eeeeeyyyy welcome back!! 🙌🙌🙌 🎷 🎷 🎷 😎😎😎 🎊🎊🎊

[@VictoryDanDukor]

This show is such a treasure. I always learn so much while watching.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

11:09 LA's talking about Nahre Sol, his co-host on Sound Field, he said "Check out Nahre's video"; please fix this subtitle

[@Hot_Ratatouille]

Good video overall. Just one major correction I need to point out. Dizzy Gillespie was not influenced by Bird in the sense of a student or a disciple. He helped develop the style along with Bird as a collaborator. They should be viewed more as equal partners rather than one as the inventor and the other one of many followers.

[@heyyitsmel]

dude these shirts are everything

[@keigielukas7357]

Much appreciated, and lucid point of view

[@Michael45RPM]

Very good Job really love this video THX

[@robertcronin6603]

Excellent video - glad I clicked 🔥

[@ikmarchini]

Good video. A classical conductor.

[@qui9]

Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop - Q-Tip on the track *Excursions*

[@arame29]

Fantastic educational tool

[@colto3]

i got to learn from Bobby Watson at UMKC, what a genuinely kind and lovely man

[@Hexspa]

I humiliated myself trying to play Cherokee in a jam session once. Haven't been back to show them nothin tho. Still trying.

[@troyvahn2461]

😂😂

[@SoundFieldPBS]

hahahha you'll show those cats. keep practicing

[@Hexspa]

@@SoundFieldPBS Thank you! Great video 👍

[@ascotamos4825]

I am so glad that you are highlighting Parkers great contributions

[@wsgray]

Well done.

[@marylouleeman591]

This is great!! Covering all the material that I was lacking about how all this came to be!! TY

[@hkumar7340]

KZbin's algorithm recommended this video to me... KZbin's algorithm can read my mind... Very informative, thank you!!

[@wakledodd]

I missed you guys! Best ever!!

[@Lamo2100]

Indianapolis also has a very authoritative but short lived stamp on jazz music. Indiana Avenue produced Freddie Hubbard, JJ Johnson, and Wes Montgomery and many more. Indiana Ave was demolished the blacks moved out to make way for IUPUI. Only things standing are Madame CJ Walker building and a few plaques commemorating the history. Unfortunately, these stories are all too common.

[@darthbee18]

3:55 see folks, PRACTICE! (40 HOURS A DAY!!) 😏🎷😎

[@SoundFieldPBS]

If you're not practicing 40 hours a day you're not trying

[@scottclute7443]

"Woodshedding"!!!!

[@aussie_philosopher8079]

Bird have wings, birds fly. Charlie flew anywhere he wanted. That's truly liberated in my books also his playing had personality or what I call swagger.

[@rva11]

Very enjoyable video. Listened, enjoyed, was sorry it ended, and subscribed. Bebop.

[@monav4062]

Charlie Parker was a Genius !!! I grew up in my younger years in New Orleans, LA, and my parents loved their weekend cocktail parties and Charlie Parker !! The man was a genius and way ahead of his time !! ❤❤

[@allen6924]

Mile's ear and knowledge of classical styles of music, gave the bebop music a firmer footing in a broader popular style of jazz. That allowed it to move from 'bebop' into 'hardbop' into 'modal' and so on. Because Miles Davis never called his music "jazz". Or any other titles critics created. It was music that's all.. You couldn't put him in a box like those you mentioned. It's why his music could adapt to any stylistic changes that the music went through. And why he was always at the forefront. And that he got from Charlie Parker, because he was a master of those classical scales and expanded them to create bebop.

[@awachili]

I just recently came across this channel and although I am no musician, the language, visuals, and swag you all have makes everything digestible. Appreciate you all at Sound Field. Stay blessed!

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Much love brother! Thank you!

[@90miles95]

this is gold

[@Steve-mp7by]

So glad I was exposed to Bird when I was a kid. I noticed even though everybody copied his notes nobody could really capture his style and feel

[@douglasgorney]

This is completely fantastic. Well done, sir.

[@haukerikjacobsen3580]

I was literally going through some of you're old videos yesterday thinking "huh... where they go?". I knew you hadn't abandoned the channel cuz you still commented and liked other comments. Missed you guys! welcome back! hope you're doing well (relatively speaking)

[@Smooth219]

those are some really nice looking shirts

[@valentinaaugustina]

I know right!! That’s what I’m thinking

[@DonWhisner]

Bird lives! Listen to his beautiful music!

[@tablon8539]

When he said "the feeeling of the blues", I felt that.

[@adelaidecameraclub6637]

Good discussion on bird, but I think it missed a vital point about Bird's harmonic sense. He extended chords by using the b9, #9, b13 (or#4) in particular, and used these to move through the 2-5s in thew chart and create new melodies. It wasn't just chromatics.

[@ecaepevolhturt]

Landing on the pretty notes.

[@mjazzguitar]

That's what chromatics are.

[@paxwallace8324]

I loved jazz as a given growing up in the 60s because all the composers of film and TV scores like Mancini, Michele Lagrand, John Barry, Lalo Schiferin were obviously heavily influenced by jazz. But it wasn't untill I had a sax in my hands in the 5th grade that I really heard the miracle of Charlie Parker. To this day at 64 I remember how heavily his slippery harmonically informed uncanny lines blew me away. To think how he must've sounded to his contemporaries is well astounding.

[@tristandufresne2870]

People did in fact dance to bebop, it wasn't sit-down music. Especially early on. Great vid

[@jordansilversmith1698]

thank you for this -- I am a big Bird fan and my wife is learning about jazz and we learned so much from this video. Thank you!!!

[@OldJong]

You just dance internaly with that music!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love his music!!

[@guitarx69x420]

Amazing video. Thank you so much for making this!

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

He was beyond great.

[@quincy9908]

*Kansas City Stand up* 😤🙌🏾

[@cjthibeau4843]

YES!!! So worth the long wait! Def another video I will be sharing with my students, I love the mini lesson on where and what jazz is, so succinct. Hope to be seeing more videos in the coming weeks! Been missing one of my favorite YT channels!!

[@dean7603]

Not only amazing history but also great music lesson! Nice job👍

[@advvlad]

awesome lesson !

[@doubleinstruments6453]

Thank for it from France,, learn more from it than spending one year at school

[@AspenTruth]

Love this. Thank You.

[@micdrop-jh3pf]

Wow - this is good stuff. I got here by following Charlie Parker. Thanks, I want to see more. Subbed.

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!

[@cjbcross]

This is fantastic...best quick treatise on Bird I have seen. Well done!

[@leoncorbett4553]

My band teacher brought me here (he had to assign something when he wasn’t at school) and I gotta say, he picked a good video.

[@michaelfitzurka5659]

great work

[@DeepCrossing1]

This is brilliant, it can be challenging to explain to people what made Parker and bebop innovative, and to explain what it means to be innovative. These one of two individuals, who messed around with an instrument and are still relevant to artists across the world, 80 years later… Parker was one of the great ones, in the world, within the 20th century.

[@manningbartlett522]

There are even great players (eg. guitar legend Allan Holdsworth) who spent years consciously working on how to *not* sound like Charlie Parker... which still required a very deep understanding of Parker. It shows just how universal his influence was.

[@andreashoppe1969]

Au Privave is such a great tune to play. It's my favorite!

[@claydobbins9342]

I like your style, young Brother.

[@Beryllahawk]

I am SO GLAD to see an upload from y'all once more

[@Burt472]

Thanks from Italy for this

[@RSTAR2009]

Thank you for this!

[@SoundFieldPBS]

Ramon LeBlanc Harts you are very welcome!

[@maxdavis670]

It would be awesome to have a video like this on Art Tatum

[@randolphneueli6479]

Many thanks for the imparting of new knowledge of Bird to me and the approach of educating the viewer wonderful wonderful!

[@SEALCOATINGISLIFE]

I wish I understood this sorcery

[@pouyanazarvash6182]

bless you bro

[@jameaterrecords]

Amazing video. I feel like Bird can be intimidating to a lot of people trying to get into jazz. Loved seeing the influence in rap and other modern music today

[@spacealienjesus709]

I love these Jazz videos Thank you so much for making these.. Long Live Jazz..

[@gil3green]

Excellent breakdown, thanks for sharing!

[@LocestSwarmSC831]

Love from KC, best little city in the world. If any of you ever get the chance the Jazz Museum in the 18th and vine district is amazing cannot recommend enough!

[@cattleprods911]

Bird's approach to music is, to the initiated, another Bach etc. It's a fundamental shift in notes, rhythm, etc. He himself said someone else will come along in 25 or 50 years and do it better/different. 70 years has past now. I love bird, and it's changed my approach to music.

[@scottmartinezguitarandbass]

Charlie Parker rests about 1 mile from my house and recording studio. Hopefully some of his genius will leach into the surroundings.

[@WartaJazzChannel]

Tx for uploading this one

[@m.c.ravioli1521]

Sound field is back!

[@SoundFieldPBS]

BIG TIME

[@MHerreraMusic]

Love this video and it’s great to see Bobby making an appearance. Besides what Bird played his attention to his tone, time and technique are still the best. He was truly a master of the saxophone.

[@mason5069]

This video was very well made and extremely insightful. Freedom in the musical world is a beautiful thing!

[@aaronfrank9649]

My opinion is that lots of Charlie Parker’s early stuff had a little slower tempo and it just grooves. His playing is just as great at those medium tempos, and his language is still bebop.

[@villagegirl3627]

My stepfather was the preeminent scholar on Charlie Parker...This is fire

[@robbes7rh]

Okay. Now I get it. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a succinct and well-made video to help me understand anything that is worthwhile. Nice job.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

Bird. Bird is the word.

[@nelsonkerr1119]

Excellent piece - learned alot...especially liked Bobby Watson's clear explanation of chromaticism and how it is used in improv. So many priceless lessons in this video - great post.

[@bobbyhallmusic]

Great video!! Terrific history and great interviews!! I LOVED IT!!

[@nataliaramirez853]

Can you do an episode on Salsa and Boogaloo? That would be amazing! Thank you for all the effort with these series, for a music head like myself its heaven, I can watch these all day.