Biography of a jazz musician

An absurd question. She is born with this knowledge. For her to sing and breathe, the concepts are equivalent. The same can be said of the greatest jazz musician of the century, whose stage nickname Bird has become an accurate expression of his virtuoso skill, his inimitable music and his whole life. His childhood passed in Kansas City of Missouri. It so coincided that it was here in the end of the 10th - early xs that a special style of jazz music was formed - penetrating, painted with blues intonations, with a large degree of improvisation.

The music sounded literally everywhere, so it was simply impossible not to get carried away with it. Charlie Parker began playing on an alt-saxophone from the age of 11. Gradually, music classes seized him so much that at the age of 15 he finally abandoned his studies at school and began to perform with a youth group, playing at parties and clubs. At that time, the musicians could entertain the audience a night by night, receiving a little more than the dollar for their work.

But this practice gave invaluable experience of improvisation. It was then that Charlie received his first nickname Yardbird Yardbird, which in army slang meant “a newbin”, in general-a newcomer, a green bird. But this beginner stubbornly went to his dream, practicing 15 hours a day. In the year, eighteen-year-old Parker entered the Jay McShenn Jay Jay McShann jay pianist group, with whom he worked for several years, touring the cities of the South-West of America, as well as performing in Chicago and New York.

This time includes his first professional records in the ensemble. This is how Billy Eccstine Eccstine recalls his first appearance on the stage of one of the New York clubs: “When this ragged man played, we all jumped to our feet.

Of course, it was Parker. Indeed, he had just arrived in a commodity directly from Kansas City. I think that then he was no more than 18 years old; However, he already played Alt like no one else. However, Burd was not enough to possess the instrument, performing the usual jazz arrangements. He was in a constant search for the expression of the music that constantly sounded in his head.

Remembering that time, he said in an interview: “It was in December. I was tired of the stereotypical techniques of the game, which were then used everywhere, and often thought that the music should be some other. Sometimes I could already hear her in myself, but I still did not know how to grab and play it. That night, along with the guitarist of Biddi Flit, we performed the topic “Cherokee”, and I suddenly found that, using higher intervals of the chords as a melodic line, I can play everything that I “heard” inside myself.

After that I came to life. In the same direction, young jazzmen who honed their skills in the nightclubs of New York-a dizzying trumpeter dizzy gillespie Dizzy Gillespie, virtuoso piano Mononius Monelonious Monk, violent drummer Kenny Kenny Clarke. This acquaintance introduced him into the circle of like -minded people and served as an incentive to joint innovative creativity.

New music, or modern jazz, as progressive musicians themselves then called it, was born on the small scenes of the nightclubs of Harlem. In those days, any musician could come to the club after work and play what the soul pleased, since the audience for the most part was little interested in what was happening on the stage. Often, in order to secure the site and scare away newcomers, the innovators, having previously agreed, began to play such complex passages that the inept performers quickly retreated, stumbling on the next musical phrase.

But gradually, something new, responding to the spirit of the times, was crystallized from these impudent searches - a direction that later received the name Bibop. According to one version, this word was born from onomatopoeia, which was expressed by the most beloved interval course - a descending reduced quint. This music with short energetic phrases, deprived of the usual melodicity, sharp impulsive transitions, a characteristic broken rhythm was unusual for the general public, difficult for perception.

Of the 20 people who heard her, 15 remained at a loss. However, over time, she won more and more fans. In the year, Parker with Gillespi and a group of like -minded people organized their small ensemble, which became the first group performing Bibop. New music caused disputes, but also attracted the audience. Flight of the second half of X is the time of creative heyday for Charlie Parker.

They regularly performed in New York and traveled with tours to large cities of America and Europe. In addition, Parker Duet with Gillespi made a concert at Carnegie Hall Gol. In the year, Bard was named the musician of the year in the questionnaire of Metron magazine. In the year, the night club "Birdland", named after the great jazzman, opened on Broadway. Parker played at his opening.

In the X years, "Birdland" became the most popular Jazz Club of New York. The studio records of Charlie Parker for Savoy and Dial Labels in the GG are the same period.Charlie Parker became a model that young saxophonists sought to imitate. His sound Alta was distinguished by power and marginal expressiveness, with sobbing upper notes and light vibrato.

One of its most influential innovations was the use of eight notes as the main unit of phrase. In turn, he himself divided the phrases into segments of different lengths, adding asymmetric accents. Its brilliant, innovative technique, filled with sounds in all registers, and accuracy in combination with the fast pace of the game on the instrument were very widely imitated by other musicians.

Everything that remains after ... At the beginning of X came a very difficult period in the life of the musician. However, he did not stop experimenting. Charlie Parker made several excellent studio records with string groups. His interests at this time go beyond jazz, he begins to be interested in classical music. This is what he said on this score: “The first was the Sudinsky“ Firebird ”suite.

I heard the folk language of the streets and stunned. I just lost my head. I think that Bartok will also become my favorite composer. I like all modern composers, but I love the classics - Bach, Beethoven, etc. However, the plans were not destined to realize. Burd died on March 12, without living until thirty -five years. The influence of Parker's sound and technology on musicians of subsequent generations is undoubtedly.

The concept of harmony and melodies is also significant. Having abandoned the diatonic series, familiar to the early jazz, he improvised and beat the topics using the chromatic series. Very often, he performed phrases that assumed additional harmony, or played passages that only remotely related to the main harmonic topic change in the chord. But, despite all his “liberties” in solo performance, he retained a melodic line.

At a slow pace, just as in the fast, he created improvisations that aroused complex feelings and subtle emotions. Parker’s influence on modern jazz is very great.