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I think people forget that he literally INVENTED jazz as we know it today
Woah let’s not go that far, you should never attribute really any large part of jazz to one musician.
More than Louis Armstrong and King Oliver?
🤦♂️
More than Kenny G?
@@thomasmanana2958 absolutley more than kenny g
Bird’s influences like any musician can be heard at points in his playing but what he did with those influences was very rare indeed. He had a very skilled ear and could play quotes from Stravinsky or corny tv commercials in the middle of long fluid lines. He would sound appropriate in modern era because he had the ability to absorb anything he heard around him into his lines.
Bird is fantastic! My current favorite saxophonist is Patrick Bartley. Such an amazing musician who creates beautifully melodic solos!
I did research paper on Charlie Parker in 4th grade
"Bird", by far my all time favorite, been listening to him all of my life. He was the man when I came along. "BIRD LIVES!"
How has nobody talked about Benny Carter or Johnny Hodges. Those are some real legends. Also the people mentioned Kenny G obviously do not know who Sidney Bechet. Edit: almost forgot about Paul Desmond!
Kenny G does not belong in a list of any kind with Charlie Parker LMAO
@@aadig5711 for real
i mean, he's good, but like you said, ''Not in a list with charlie parker''@@aadig5711
@@kchappelle Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges were Bird clones ? 😂 they played jazz way before Bird was known
The greatest for all the times!!
Agreed. There is another vid out there with live footage with him, Coleman Hawkins and Buddy Rich. It’s prerecorded but they are playing over it
Bird was a true virtuoso. He introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. He was also an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just a mere entertainer.
Rest in Peace Bird 🙏🏾🎷
My kid was playing Au Privavenin full time of 240bpm at 15 years old. Then he found video games and has barely touched his sax in years. Signed a very sad father
Charlie Parker
Sonny stitt
Cannonball Adderley
Phil woods
Kenny Garrett
Vincent herring
Jean Baptist
Dave Sanborn
These are some really good top 7 in my book
Started off good. 🤣 Replace the second half with Jackie McLean, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Paul Desmond, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Lou Donaldson, Miguel Zenón
@@marike1100 Glad someone mentioned Lou Donaldson
Not only an alto sax, I consider him as a jazz goat
Bird is the Mozart of jazz.
Bird is great sure, but my personal favourite is still Paul Desmond because I love how he is one of the few alto legends who doesnt have to play at the speed of light, and he created cool jazz more or less
most of my favorite sax players are many tenor .. but 🤔 today i can think of 4 alto players Gerald albright ,warren hill, jeff kashiwa and nelson rangell which idk why but he so underrated tht guy can let loose
Those are more Fusion and Smooth jazz players.... like them myself , but I think he meant the Mainstream players....
Earl Bostic!
You should do greatest soprano players
Paul Desmond is the one I look up to.
Love Bird. If he’s first then Lee Konitz is second. Konitz had to develop a sound (which he later filled out possibly due to a stint with Kenton) and rhythmic approach that differed almost fundamentally from Bird. If you listen to what Konitz was doing around 1949 - beautiful serpentine, densely chromatic runs with unusual rhythmic accenting - and to what he was doing with Kenny Wheeler and Dan Tepfer towards the end of his life… LK is a behemoth of the alto sax.
Thankyou we love him he's from our home town Kansas City 18th and vine!
Bird, Coleman Hawkins, and Ben Webster are all from KC. KC is kinda GOAT for birth place of jazz saxophonists imo.
@user-jp7zm3fo3q yes sir!!
Sonny Stitt came very close!
Only existing live footage? Not true. Found 3 in one minute after watching this short. One in color with Diz playing Hot house!!
That’s the same video. The others he is not actually play. Just miming.
Art Pepper is one of my favourite
The fact that he thinks his playing would still sound contemporary is a testament to how museumafied jazz has become. White stakeholders in the music have done a great job of fossilizing the art form. To say no one has matched Parker is really just reinforcing my original point.
@Sonnyrollinsfani’d argue it’s both points simultaneously. I hear a lot of amazing jazz innovation, and a lot of fossilization! I feel like the internet has basically turned jazz into something where no one can really be the best anymore because everyone can do it. There are hardly any restrictions to playing jazz now, so ppl can just be the best if they want to.
I also feel like there’s not enough credit given on the subject of jazz’s diversification. There are hundreds (probably thousands tbh) of musicians that simply can’t be appreciated because of saturation. It was easy to appreciate bird because his level of innovation was so stupendous and the people at that level were few and far between, unlike now.
I think your first point is valid and exemplified in a lot of stuff like academia placing a lot of emphasis on learning bop and only bop, but it’s also important to contextualize Parker’s playing and writing and how different it was compared to everyone else. A lot of people may have gotten to the same technical levels but Parker was the first one to raise the bar there and it was a significant jump. Jazz died decades ago.
Pretty sure that's Buddy Rich on drums.
Don't forget...SONNY CRISS!
Thank you. Criss has to be one of the most underrated of all! In my top 3 :)
Which alto saxophone do you use ?
BIRD SALUTE!
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Greatest Alto Sax: Bird. Greatest Tenor Sax: Coltrane. Greatest Soprano Sax: Shorter.
Here's my all time greats. AS Charlie Parker TS Coltrane B Paul Chambers P Monk Trumpet Fats Navarro Organ Jack McDuff (Jimmy Smith fans won't like me) Vibes Milt Jackson Drums Elvin Jones Trombone Can't decide One more Baritone Sax Leo Parker I love jazz.
haha That's like a flash round of fantasy football jazz...how fun. Okay check this:
AS- Sonny Criss, Cl- Barney Bigard, Ts- Ben Webster, Tp- Clark Terry, Tbn- Tricky Sam Nanton, Organ- Bill Doggett, Gt- Al Casey, P- Oscar Peterson, B- Ray Brown, Dr- Big Sid Catlett!
@@hypecleffon2655 The list of jazz greats seems endless.
Where’s the list?
gotta watch the full video
Above you
@@viper4622 he didn't even leave a link to the full video
Joe Henderson !
There are two videos man ,another one with Coleman Hawkins.
It’s so sad that there is only one “live” video. There is one with him and Coleman Hawkins .. “ballade”.
That doesn’t count perhaps because they were lip/finger syncing .. how sad ..
@greg
Cool, but where's the list? lol
oh he said classic alto players ..
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I mean, he practiced for 15 hours a day. 😮
Damn.
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IF you were alive 😳
If Charlie was a gunslinger, there’d be a lot of dead copycats.
- Charles Mingus
i know he dosent play much alto but kenny g
not really
Yes
💀💀💀Kenny G? 🤮🤮🤮WTF? He belongs in the worst category of sax players! To hear other great Alto Sax Players, take a listen to Cannonball Adderly , Phil Woods, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Garrett, Paul Desmond, Vincent Herring, Art Pepper
Kenny G couldn’t tie the shoes of any of these Giants💀💀💀
Kenny G 💀
@@g-ants7547 i dont understund what does the 💀 means?
Mmm.. not agree!
Be a father of a style of phrasing, like bebop, It doesn't make you the best saxophonist, neither does playing faster. Much more important is the quality than the mode or the speed. In addition, Parker consumed many drugs and played under the influence of it, which gave him advantageous results at the time, but later he paid the consequences. None of that seems great to me, the only thing that I find admirable about him was his enormous ability to practice for so many hours.
who’s the greatest saxophonist then?
@@jagster531 I don't know, because each of the great saxophonists has their strengths and weaknesses, and some are better at one thing and others at another. In addition, each genre has its own.
"Quality" is subjective, and his quality of phrasing, melody, style, articulation, etc. was also unparalleled with his finger technique. When you are considered the father of the genre, you can play the shit out of your instrument, played and recorded with the biggest jazz legends of the time, there's almost no world where you aren't considered one of the greatest at the instrument. Doing drugs has nothing to do with that. You can do all drugs or no drugs and still shred. Now if it makes you a role model that's another question.
Drugs did not give him an advantage lmao
Hmmm…Bird has held a lot if not the most influence on Jazz and it’s not really subjective either. His technique and playing regardless of what style he was playing in is still a tremendous feat that contributes to his greatness. That on top of his connections with some of the greatest musicians in that time alongside his constant innovation of the genre is very substantial as well. Quality is important I agree and while Bird may not have had the best quality in sound from a subjective point of view, it’s a completely unique and different sound entirely encompassing an entire era of that time (also drugs do not boost your performance).