Charlie Parker - Donna Lee
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Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 - March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso, and he introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career. This, and the shortened form "Bird", continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology", "Bird Gets the Worm", and "Bird of Paradise". Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer.
Charles Parker, Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Adelaide "Addie" (Bailey) and Charles Parker. He attended Lincoln High School in September 1934, but withdrew in December 1935, just before joining the local musicians' union.
Parker began playing the saxophone at age 11, and at age 14 he joined his school's band using a rented school instrument. His father, Charles, was often absent but provided some musical influence; he was a pianist, dancer and singer on the T.O.B.A. circuit. He later became a Pullman waiter or chef on the railways. Parker's mother Addie worked nights at the local Western Union office. His biggest influence at that time was a young trombone player who taught him the basics of improvisation.
In the late 1930s Parker began to practice diligently. During this period he mastered improvisation and developed some of the ideas that led to bebop. In an interview with Paul Desmond, he said that he spent three to four years practicing up to 15 hours a day.
Bands led by Count Basie and Bennie Moten certainly influenced Parker. He played with local bands in jazz clubs around Kansas City, Missouri, where he perfected his technique, with the assistance of Buster Smith, whose dynamic transitions to double and triple time influenced Parker's developing style.
In 1939 Parker moved to New York City, to pursue a career in music. He held several other jobs as well. He worked for nine dollars a week as a dishwasher at Jimmie's Chicken Shack, where pianist Art Tatum performed.
According to an interview Parker gave in the 1950s, one night in 1939 he was playing "Cherokee" in a jam session with guitarist William "Biddy" Fleet when he hit upon a method for developing his solos that enabled one of his main musical innovations. He realized that the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz soloing.
A longstanding desire of Parker's was to perform with a string section. He was a keen student of classical music, and contemporaries reported he was most interested in the music and formal innovations of Igor Stravinsky and longed to engage in a project akin to what later became known as Third Stream, a new kind of music, incorporating both jazz and classical elements as opposed to merely incorporating a string section into performance of jazz standards. On November 30, 1949, Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record an album of ballads with a mixed group of jazz and chamber orchestra musicians. Six master takes from this session comprised the album Charlie Parker with Strings: "Just Friends", "Everything Happens to Me", "April in Paris", "Summertime", "I Didn't Know What Time It Was", and "If I Should Lose You".
In 1953, Parker performed at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada, joined by Gillespie, Mingus, Powell and Roach. Unfortunately, the concert happened at the same time as a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott, so the musical event was poorly attended. Mingus recorded the concert, resulting in the album Jazz at Massey Hall. At this concert, Parker played a plastic Grafton saxophone. At this point in his career he was experimenting with new sounds and materials. Parker himself explained the purpose of the plastic saxophone in a May 9, 1953 broadcast from Birdland and did so again in a subsequent May 1953 broadcast. Parker is known to have played several saxophones, including the Conn 6M, the Martin Handicraft and Selmer Model 22. He is also known to have performed with a King "Super 20" saxophone. Parker's King Super 20 saxophone was made specially for him in 1947.
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'Have you heard of Donna Lee?'
'Sounds familiar. Hum the melody.'
'ok... BLBLLBLLL AH AH AH BLBLLBLBLBLL!'
Ah yes, is that what it's called? My granny used to whistle it while baking scones.
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listening to this because some hot female at college listing to it
Damn she’s a keeper bro
Learning this on electric bass at the moment. It's all about bringing little parts together. Tough shit. But I'll never sound like THIS.
Me2, ive been playing for a year now. Its hard and iT Will take me months to master, just like teen town.
Me too😅
maybe because you are hearing a trumpet (opinion) (not sure)
@@bibblybobbly9951 no.
It took me 3 weeks to be able to play the transcription of the tune and parkers solo
Put it at 0.5 speed and he sounds drunk
Parker was already drunk
It's the coke
lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
AHAHAHAHAHA
I am now learning this in 0.5 speed
This is Teached at Jazz academy in Finland. To pass the grade, you have to master the melody on alto. It requires quitebintricate fingering..
I can imagine! By 'alto' do you mean a viola? I've never heard it played on a viola before, nor a cello, but I have heard it on violin and surprisingly, double bass!
@@xatnu alto saxophone my dude
@@glados2403 😂
Im able to do it😁
Put this on 0,5x speed and you will hear angry elephants fighting
Charlie Parker was a genius.
No he wasn't, he just worked as hard as a human being can
I love how Bird invented a new language, mastered it and used it to quote himself (first four bars of this head are all over the place in his solos), producer and consumer of his own ideas.
Bird was a genius, the melody is a solo in itself
He didn't quoate himself, the tune was written by miles davis
@@nagabe6135 no it wasn't?
I first heart this song 20 years ago. I still can't play it on bass!
Well maybe you should consider doing something else in life ?
@@antoniojosebolivar8999 Whiplash reference? :)
@@antoniojosebolivar8999 ну это не так уж и тяжело сделать кавер, может у него просто пока нет времени на разбор
It took me 20 mins to learn the first 10 seconds on guitar :P
Adam Davidson It took me 1 week
Cris Paz tabs? where?
Real Book
i've learnt the first 33 seconds in 3 weeks. This in not an easy song.
it took me 10 years to encourage myself to play this masterpiece.
Be-bop
Be-bop
@@evanbluz946 Be-bop
Det är omöjligt att spela på det viset men ändå händer det. Klas
classic be bop
Its actually Ab bop
Stupenda
0:06
You know, just because you *can* do something...
It's to no use to speed it down . You can read in Charlie Parker omnibook.
0:04
SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Here Ladies and Gentlemen, Bebop language! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee
Un concentrato di tecnica e cuore...geniale!!!
Is this a 78rpm Record ...I could´t believe it cause of the sound, I thaugt that every charly record was a 78rpm?
In bar 21 of the melody (0:22) and bar 5 in the outro (2:20) I'm hearing an A played over the Gm7b5. Everybody else plays an Ab like the melody in the Real Book. Why is this? Or what have I misunderstood?
The A is the correct one
In the Charlie Parker omnibook its an A natural, yes
Real book is a little bit wrong sometimes
The ab is diatonic, but a natural 9 over a half diminished chord often sounds better because it doesn't spoil the Ab which has a resolution character to it.
Nice observation, indeed! I suppose this means the Real Book is wrong here, as this version would be the original. The difference is like the choice between playing G Locrian or Bb melodic minor over the chord ... which would make either an acceptable, optional variation.
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네, 그는 위인 중의 위인입니다!
みんな虜に…。😃🙄
Im here because of RHCP bassist sing this song
Fadrick F me too ahahaha
Lol when?
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Stefano Morbidelli italiano?
@@dariosacchet7764 Sí.
Sono qui per celebrare il più grande dolore di Fru
Yes
Charlie Parker: genius.
Love Charlie
Woow
228 bpm , I reckon
0:33
Hear It and i m happy
0:17
0:04
A Legend
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
When I see "lost recording" I always think "and for a good reason"
Donna Lee was composed by Miles Davis
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So some say. It's a variation on 'Indiana'.
I would say so. It doesnt sound like bird. It sounds like a parody of bird. Definitely not the same standard as birds compositions. Too many 8th notes.
gr8 b8 m8, 8/8
what tempo of this song ?
230- 250 for winds i would say.. for guitar dunno 200 is a cool tempo but that is just me
DAVID CACERES PALACIOS 230 in my Charlie Parker omnibook
230
214 bpm
Not quite my tempo...
everybody thumbs down this stupid piece of shit.
Matt Kriley Jesus christ😂😂
haha what? The only thing worse than a senseless comment are foolish twats that copy said comments trying to be funny.
Matt Kriley calm down man it's just a joke 😂
obvious didn't get there first is obvious
these "melodies" don't make any sense..
Your comment is basically "I don't like jazz", but in other words 😅