{"id":449,"date":"2011-08-04T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=449"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:33:36","slug":"how-madeleine-peyroux-is-not-charlie-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/08\/how-madeleine-peyroux-is-not-charlie-parker.html","title":{"rendered":"How Madeleine Peyroux is not Charlie Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/charlie-parker.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-image-451 size-full\" title=\"charlie parker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/charlie-parker.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Parker &#8211; Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What does folkie chanteuse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Standing-Rooftop-Madeleine-Peyroux\/dp\/B004WJRFNU\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Madeleine Peyroux<\/a> have to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Town-Hall-York-City-June\/dp\/B0012JJK7C\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Charlie Parker<\/a>, the alto saxophonist who has defined the past 60 years of vernacular instrumental improvisation, namesake of a two-day fest that&#8217;s NYC&#8217;s final free summer fling? Everything (not quite) is revealed in my new <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2011\/08\/02\/summer-jazz-blues\/#more-5369\">CityArts<\/a> column . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">howardmandel.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe by Email or RSS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does folkie chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux have to do with Charlie Parker, the alto saxophonist who has defined the past 60 years of vernacular instrumental improvisation, namesake of a two-day fest that&#8217;s NYC&#8217;s final free summer fling? Everything (not quite) is revealed in my new CityArts column . . . howardmandel.com Subscribe by Email or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/charlie-parker.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-7f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/08\/online-video-charlie-parker-jazz-fest-day-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":449,"position":0},"title":"Online video Charlie Parker Jazz Fest, day 2","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurricane Irene wiped out both days of NYC's annual Charlie Parker Jazz Fest -- but not the show of Archie Shepp, Anat Cohen, Gerald Clayton and Madeleine Peyroux available via YouTube. 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