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Happy Birthday to Roy Haynes [born 13th March 1925] seen here with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, 13th September 1953 at the Open Door on West 3rd Street.
Perhaps the greatest jazz pic ever, by Bob Parent.
Charlie Parker, NYC [1954] by Dennis Stock
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Bird Lives
Charlie Parker Memorial
Happy Fathers Day - John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, Don Cherry and Charlie Parker
“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”
Charlie Parker, age 31 [1952]
"Bird might have been the spirit of the bebop movement, but Dizzy was its “head and its hands,” the one who kept it all together." Miles Davis
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?
A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, Sunday 13th September 1953 at the Open Door on West 3rd Street, pic by Bob Parent
"Charlie Parker begged me to let him use strings. I don’t think that strings swing in a jazz context, but he begged me so much I gave in to him." Norman Granz
Charlie Parker with Strings
“During 1945, we used to go down almost every night to catch Diz and Bird wherever they were playing. We felt that if we missed hearing them play, we were missing something important. Man, the shit they were playing and doing was going down so fast, you just had to be there in person to catch it.”
Miles Davis talks Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker [August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955]
George Morrow, Hank Mobley, Max Roach and Kenny Dorham, session for ‘Max Roach Plus Four Plays Charlie Parker’ 23rd December 1957
"Bird might have been the spirit of the Be-Bop movement but Dizzy was its head & hands, the one who kept it all together." Miles Davis
Dizzy Gillespie writes a phrase of Be-Bop, New York [1947]
Happy Fathers Day - John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, Don Cherry and Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, Harry Babasin, Chet Baker and Helen Carr, The Tiffany Club, LA, May 1952 by William Claxton
Charlie Parker with Strings
"Charlie Parker begged me to let him use strings. I don’t think that strings swing in a jazz context, but he begged me so much I gave in to him." Norman Granz
