{"id":1223,"date":"2008-02-01T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2008-02-01T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T09:04:00","slug":"lambert_evans_and_bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/02\/lambert_evans_and_bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambert, Evans and Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. <em>Jazz Wax <\/em>has a two-part conversation with Hal McKusick about Charlie Parker&#8217;s 1953 recording with Dave Lambert&#8217;s vocal group and a chamber ensemble put together by Gil Evans. McKusick played clarinet. The project turned out to be a bit of a mess but, as McKusick explains, not because of Parker.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bird blew through everything. Every take was a beaut. The vocalists were trying to get it together, and Dave was struggling. He&#8217;d rehearse them the best he could in between takes to get them on track. Simplicity would have been better for Dave&#8211;a unison line with fewer singers rather than so many harmonies. It was too ambitious. The vocals wound up stepping all over Gil&#8217;s instrumental charts&#8211;but not Bird&#8217;s solos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the whole thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com.\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bird.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Bird.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" align=right>Mr. <em>Jazz Wax<\/em>, Marc Myers, recommends that his readers download the music<br \/>\nfrom<em> i-Tunes<\/em>. Some of us troglodytes still like CDs. You can find the issued, alternate and short takes&#8211;and there were a lot them&#8211;in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBird-Complete-Charlie-Parker-Verve%2Fdp%2FB00000478B&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">this massive boxed set<\/a> containing everything Bird recorded for Verve. For the completist or for someone who wants to know more about the latter days of Parker&#8217;s creative life, it&#8217;s a lovely way to spend a snowbound evening.<br \/>\nMake that several snowbound evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Jazz Wax has a two-part conversation with Hal McKusick about Charlie Parker&#8217;s 1953 recording with Dave Lambert&#8217;s vocal group and a chamber ensemble put together by Gil Evans. McKusick played clarinet. The project turned out to be a bit of a mess but, as McKusick explains, not because of Parker. Bird blew through everything. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}