Guided Listening: "Billie's Bounce" & Charlie Parker
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FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS - Charlie Parker . . . Here’s a lesson on how to platy the blues from the greatest of them all. Bird could sound happy, modern, bluesy and sassy when he played the blues, often all in one chorus. Let’s check out what’s going on with all of that in this great 1945 recording of “Billie’s Bounce.”
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Thanks for doing these "guided listening" videos. Love your insight!!
Thanks Jeff. I look forward to these videos. Really enjoy them. Dick
Thanks for listening, and for taking the time to write!
This was my first intro to Bird as well -- thanks to Steve Owen formerly of UTArlington. I still have his notes on articulation, phrasing, etc. from this first entry into jazz. This video reminds me of the vast differences between learning something a tune by sight (i.e. from a book) vs listening to it. There are advantages to both, but in my own experience I always had trouble figuring out how to play Bird's phrase just before the double time. I just couldn't feel it. Same with my intro to triplet 16ths in an eighth note run. Was trying to play much too stiffly or square. When I heard it years later, it clicked and I understood what was going on.
That's a long way of saying that there's so many levels to this music -- from the basic happy/sad or bluesy to how much to swing vs. play straight to the harmony vs melody, etc.. Makes even an almost 20 min video feel short for a 3 minute song! So much fun and so much to learn.
Thanks for the great response here. You are right, this is such infinite stuff to try to talk about, let alone to play!!
I don't know which song came first, but I'm hearing Twisted (Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross) in the beginning of the solo.
Twisted is by Wardell Gray, Annie Ross wrote some words and recorded with LHR
@@lyntedrockley7295 right. I had that LHR album years ago so when I hear Twisted I remember their lyrics, but all their tunes were originally some other group's instrumentals. Do you hear the similarity I heard?
This recording definitely predates the Wardell Gray song Twisted. That said, I'd say it's impossible to say where that melody/lick came from and who played it first. That was just "good musical vocabulary" for the time (and for NOW)!!