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Chapter 4 Bebop Music Links
Swing Tenor Saxophone v Bop Alto Saxophone 1950 video, Coleman Hawkins (swing tenor sax) and Charlie Parker (bebop alto sax) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_UByyi4Z0 they are 'lip-syncing', note Bird laughing compare swing tenor sax improvisation with bop alto sax swinging v flying high, bluesy melodic, scalar improvisation v angular upper chord tones
A Rhapsody In Black And Blue a 1932 short musical fantasy film with Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUcQESVYlec
Rhythm Section Examples: Ride Cymbal Crash Cymbal Walking Bass Embellished Walking Bass Blues Walking Bass & Piano Blues Solo
Improvising on Chord Changes Example: AABA (1:02 - end)
Bop Harmonic Structure Chord Substitutions Whispering => Groovin' High
Whispering Bing Crosby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG2JueinWZs
Groovin' High - 1947 reharmonized Whispering with a new melody Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oslMFOeFoLI
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Charlie 'Bird' 'Yardbird' Parker (alto saxophone)
Shaw 'Nuff 1945 with Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Al Haig (piano), Curly Russell (bass), Sidney Catlett (drums) (Gillespie, Parker) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVup0Xoq-Ow class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywTzoouGX3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuZNbdwAk8
Ko Ko 1945 with Miles Davis (trumpet), Diz (piano), Max Roach (drums), Curly Russell (bass) based on Cherokee, melody changed in the studio to avoid paying royalties the recorded birth of Bop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrNwE6GI70 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rMiD8UUcd0
Charlie Parker said that while playing Ray Noble's tune "Cherokee"I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing." He had played that piece so many times that by the end he hated it, but he had mastered the chords perfectly in all 12 keys. "Ko-Ko" has a partially improvised head and the chords are based on "Cherokee".
Ornithology 1947 live with Miles Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_TCBsvMuk class, good drums 1946 with miles Davis: take 3, pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEeISJ0wr48 take 1, not for class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUo-6JfVoTI
Confirmation 1953 good quality recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XA_Jugejto class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXK0pZx92MU
1950 with Strings - his most commercial success Just Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRkZeGFONg
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1950 with Strings April in Paris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw0rVXblI6g Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXauqq9ayY
Now's The Time original - 1945 with Miles Davis (trumpet), Diz (piano), Max Roach (drums), Curly Russell (bass): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwJPjb2FOIc quartet, faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2RzlLJUNo 1953 live Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bm2fkRILNE
Billie's Bounce 1945 with Miles Davis (trumpet), Diz (piano), Max Roach (drums), Curly Russell (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo
Thriving From A Riff 1945 with Miles Davis (trumpet), Diz (piano), Max Roach (drums), Curly Russell (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2QwRV9aq8s
Hot House 1951 Video with Diz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTrx0hL1ag
Celebrity lip sync 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWAK4j_rMw0
Yardbird Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmroWIcCNUI
Scrapple From the Apple 1947 with Miles Davis, Max Roach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b2AOlCGpKY
Embraceable You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LseVl8iBXs
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John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie (trumpet)
Blue n' Boogie 1951 live w/ Bird: class, good drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNT8dXW-Zw 1945 - record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8n_gO72pQ
Anthropology with vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHoNFHnfCI class bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3L5lB8hwcM class
Oo Bop Sh' Bam a klook a mop 1946 record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aksce4oJsU class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHegsWOdeA Kenny Clarke on drums live Big Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSC0zze3dz0
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Salt Peanuts 1945 record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgoag5daDQ class 1947 live Big Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmA8LOw258 1945 record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrUBEtoNQU
A Night in Tunisia 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ems2C46yebU class live 1945 record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0PwxDtN22Y w/ bird carnegie hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZNrcF14Dg live cuba 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xncznvkB7S8
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac live record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX1rj5WkHyU same live recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy-A5FYn27c
Manteca 1945 big band live w/ chano pozo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0H5RmpAezA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Tt6W-TxXs 1970 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWrLXDKixM interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMTNJNFzZFU
I Can't Get Started record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJxjNQDmkA live 1962: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjo2i87h5PM
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Tin Tin Deo 1951 John Coltrane (tenor sax), Milt Jackson (vibes), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Percy Health (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNmT4cZ1Rg Christopher Wesley White (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQaUNeErVM 1971 Al McKibbon (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qEmul068rQ compositions to know: Anthropology (Thriving On A Riff) w/Bird Blue 'n' Boogie Con Alma Cubano Be, Cubano Bop Groovin' High Manteca A Night In Tunesia Salt Peanuts Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac Tin Tin Deo Two Bass Hit
Thelonious Sphere Monk (piano)
Epistrophy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amSRAblTGdM class octet record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YecvWY8RQyY class live japan 1963 long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9El7k4mNo solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpB4lkgeN0 with trane live rec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_h1geOaLvY
Well, You Needn't club it - nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOvKLvWuZjg class video, good, very long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRBxGmD32ZM class
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'Round Midnight video, nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yg7aZpIXRI#t=10 class record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yg7aZpIXRI
Misterioso blues with a quirky, extremely regular, melody live record, long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7te1syRAYO0 class record, good, but tenor solo only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zz-7Jo2YCM shorter, w/ vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WDW-swiAA
Evidence intervallic, pointillist melody overlaid over swinging accompaniment live video 1963 japan, nice, long, dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qweSlfP6BtI class live recording 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwKtBLO-zw record live w/ trane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqdO8-JxAYQ#t=15
Ruby My Dear with trane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6liAgg4SN88 class video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39TdbJxGNY
Straight, No Chaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVb9e1DgKJ4
Bemsha Swing sparse melody with repetitive rhythm record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBzh-8SKB2U live recording 1961 good quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duN70alLanw
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Kenny 'Klook' Clarke (drums)
Shaw 'Nuff 1961 live recording with Bud Powell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BitpTenYhk class
Get Happy Paris 1959 with Bud Powell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu22jRrRtHg class
Bud Powel (piano)
Boncing with Bud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5gbhk4l7k class 1949 Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Fats Navarro (trumpet), Tommy Potter (bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
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52nd Street Theme 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BYYggyZuY class Thelonious Monk composition, 52nd Street, NYC, the birthplace of Bebop
Un Poco Loco 1951 Max Roach (drums), Curly Russell (bass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVNtHCnPUZw class
Anthropology 1962 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaSDinL6pC8 class
A Night in Tunisia - 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0OJAD4G5g class
'Round Midnight video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPTvRf1m6M
Theory Example: harmonic extensions altered chords
Jazz Vocabulary Chart sheet with chord changes and original melody (aka Lead Sheet) Head Arrangement arrangement memorized, rather than written Reharmonize alter the chord progression of a standard song Standard (2) a common, well known, Jazz song; part of the repertoire of Jazz Trading 4s (8s) soloists alternate every 4 (8) measures Turnaround a chord progression and phrase which bring the song back to the beginning
Jazz on the Silver Screen:
Bird Clint Eastwood - Director 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJx7xNtWAFA biopic about Charlie Parker
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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Charlotte Zwerin - Director 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9udeWOjjls documentary
Round Midnight Bertrand Tavernier 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMyFtjaSSAU
Additional Recordings:
Charlie Parker - Savoy Recordings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mRaEzwTYo&list=RDS4mRaEzwTYo Celebrating Bird The Triumph of Charlie Parker - documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqorVLscxRI The Charlie Parker Story - documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQg-55tZxg Groovin' High and other songs, Charlie Parker & others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oslMFOeFoLI&list=RDoslMFOeFoLI
Dizzy Grand Maestros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th8B7MBy0jE Mixes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8n_gO72pQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSC0zze3dz0&list=RDLSC0zze3dz0 Manteca full album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKsMYDIOQc
Monk & others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9El7k4mNo&list=RDdZ9El7k4mNo Monk recorded Live in Paris 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyHGpMvag78 Monk Live in Poland 1966 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh2ry4fkqI
Bud Powell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L0FqOsFrZ4&list=PL4DFDB5FD45E381F5 live with Kenny Clarke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNAKrFLqfU
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