[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Parker

[FLECKNELL RICHARD]

My opinion of Parker is that his strengths are not speed or relative complex
harmonic choices. No it's his emotional impact that comes across to me - add
to his abilitiy to play the blues in such, then of course, a new and
convincing way.

Steve B - Omer Simeon featured on one of  two American records that my uncle
owned back in the sixties - this more than anything else set me on the Jazz
Trail.

Those records were Bunk & Lu (Good Time Jazz) and Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
(Vogue ... Good Time Jazz).  They are still great to me.

The records in my father's household were Kenny Ball At The Empire Theatre
Liverpool and Chris Barber At The London Palladium - still great to my ears.

Bill - I still get a kick listening to Bud Scott singing Under The Bamboo
Tree.  What's that Bill 'not Scott but Bill Johnson' surely not.

Richard
OzOd Capt.