{"id":1808,"date":"2009-08-29T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2009-08-29T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T23:23:14","slug":"charlie_parkers_birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/charlie_parkers_birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Parker&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City on this date in 1920. The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff debated whether to observe the occasion by publishing a 5000-word essay tracing Parker&#8217;s musical heritage, analyzing the components of his style and evaluating his influence on several generations of musicians. You&#8217;ll be happy to know that we decided instead to take Bird&#8217;s advice in the film below and let his music speak for itself.<br \/>\nThis is the only known clip of Parker actually playing. In several others he is seen performing to pre-recorded sound tracks. The man presenting 1951 <em>Down Beat<\/em> awards to Parker and Dizzy Gillespie is the columnist Earl Wilson, assisted by critic Leonard Feather. The rhythm section is Dick Hyman, piano; Sandy Block, bass; and Charlie Smith, drums. The piece is Tadd Dameron&#8217;s &#8220;Hot House.&#8221; The staff is aware that many of you have seen this clip. We are equally aware that you can&#8217;t see it too often.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wkvCDCOGzGc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wkvCDCOGzGc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Happy birthday<\/strong>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City on this date in 1920. The Rifftides staff debated whether to observe the occasion by publishing a 5000-word essay tracing Parker&#8217;s musical heritage, analyzing the components of his style and evaluating his influence on several generations of musicians. You&#8217;ll be happy to know that we decided instead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1808","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\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}