Vorrei segnalare un bel blog, JazzWax.com nel quale l'autore Marc Myers scrive giornalmente su grandi leggende del jazz e leggendarie registrazioni.
In particolare vorrei segnalare un post, pubblicato qualche giorno fa su un concerto di Charlie Parker e Dizzy Gillespie alla Carnegie Hall il 29 settembre 1947.
Remember, this was 1947, and the big names of jazz were Roy Eldridge, Don Byas and Bill Harris. Bop was very much a poor relation, husbanded by a hard-core claque, more annoying than effective.
By divine right, according to these hipsters, the Bird should have been the main attraction, but there were a number of very good reasons for building the concert around Dizzy. Old Diz was then experimenting with the first of his big bands and, of course, ranked as an outstanding practitioner of the new style.
More important, he was eminently employable, which at no stretch of the imagination could be said about Parker. It was often a matter of pure chance if Parker showed up for a booking at all (an advance was usually a fatal mistake), let alone with his horn, and the promoters had understandably put their money on the jovial and reliable trumpeter.
In particolare vorrei segnalare un post, pubblicato qualche giorno fa su un concerto di Charlie Parker e Dizzy Gillespie alla Carnegie Hall il 29 settembre 1947.
Remember, this was 1947, and the big names of jazz were Roy Eldridge, Don Byas and Bill Harris. Bop was very much a poor relation, husbanded by a hard-core claque, more annoying than effective.
By divine right, according to these hipsters, the Bird should have been the main attraction, but there were a number of very good reasons for building the concert around Dizzy. Old Diz was then experimenting with the first of his big bands and, of course, ranked as an outstanding practitioner of the new style.
More important, he was eminently employable, which at no stretch of the imagination could be said about Parker. It was often a matter of pure chance if Parker showed up for a booking at all (an advance was usually a fatal mistake), let alone with his horn, and the promoters had understandably put their money on the jovial and reliable trumpeter.
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