Rifftides reader Don Emanuel alerted us to video of Supersax nineteen years ago at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. The band organized by Med Flory was devoted to Charlie Parker solos transcribed and harmonized for a saxophone section. It played them with accuracy and feeling that gave their … [Read more...]
Archives for July 9, 2007
Compatible Quotes
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.--Charlie Parker If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats.--Charles Mingus … [Read more...]
“Take Five” By Twelve
In Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, I told of having heard Desmond's "Take Five" on a music box in a Prague gift shop and in a number of other unlikely places including the Mexico City subway and my neighborhood gas station. There are sheet music arrangements of "Take Five" … [Read more...]