Happy Birthday Charlie Parker

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Would have been great if there were a Exhibit.


@Gary - Yes, many of us - anyway, a few handfuls - of cloistered jazz fans here. We hardly ever make an appearance in the "Been To Any Concerts Lately" thread. I try to get into NYC when I can to the jazz clubs...maybe those smaller venues aren't considered a "concert". I dunno.

BTW - I got a "thing" for Sonny Fortune, another alto sax player (alto flute too). First time I got to see him live was in mid Seventies San Francisco, at the long since defunct Keystone Korner.

I am almost positive there are no cards of Coltrane either. Basie and Miller have 40s mutoscopes and of course Louis has tons of cards and Ella has quite a few.

[tedzan]

I'm surprised that no one here has mentioned of the famous New York City Jazz scene which was named after Charlie.....BIRDLAND.

Birdland was established in 1949, Charlie Parker was the headliner, and the club owners named it after him. Birdland was located on
Broadway, just west of 52nd Street. This part of the City was a hot-spot of Jazz in the 1930's to the mid-1960's.

I graduated HS in 1957, my Jazz-loving buddies and I would drive to Birdland almost every month. Admission was $5, a hard-liquor
drink was only $1.50.

Listed here are some of the Jazz greats which we saw (and heard) at Birdland.

Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
George Shearing
Dizzy Gillespie
Gene Krupa
Paul Desmond
Gerry Mulligan
Count Basie
Lionel Hampton
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Vince Guaraldi Trio
etc.


The 1950's and 1960s were a great time to be a "Jersey guy" with a car, living less than an hour away from New York City.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Peter_Spaeth]

More jazz cards.

[Paul S]

Peter, what's the story with the Vaughan and Peggy cards? Issue, year of, etc.

And...gotta love a Ellington that looks like a T206

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Peter, what's the story with the Vaughan and Peggy cards? Issue, year of, etc.

And...gotta love a Ellington that looks like a T206

1959 NuCard. Very easy to find.

[tedzan]

The Jazz artist that I would have liked to see perform is Ahmad Jamal. I don't think he ever performed at Birdland. Ahmad Jamal was a Jazz contemporary of Charlie Parker.
Like Dave Brubeck, Jamal introduced an exciting new style to Jazz in the 1950's. And, like Brubeck, Jamal has enjoyed a long life (he recently celebrated his 88th Birthday).

His rendering of “Poinciana” ranks up there with Dave Brubeck's "Take Five", as one of the all-time best of Jazz.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[jerseygary]

That Ellington card is really neat, I'll have to try and pick one up.

Here's a set of cards I did for myself about 20 years ago. I had done a series of five portraits of my favorite jazz musicians to hang over my record player. They seemed to lend themselves to a 1934-36 Diamond Stars style.

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[jerseygary]

I just picked up one of those Mitchell's Cigarettes Duke Ellington cards - it's a pretty neat little card that can be had at a reasonalble price (I paid $14)