Biography
"Prince of Jazz" Miles Davis in the autobiography depicted his predecessor Charlie Parker Monster. The saxophonist who created the Bibop style really suffered from alcohol and heroin dependencies and had a difficult character. However, Davis has a phrase:"All the history of jazz can be shared by four words - Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker."Childhood and youth
Saxophonist was born at the end of the summer of 1920 in the town of Kansas City of Kansas. It is curious that Parker's childhood passed in another town with the same name located in Missouri.
The racial affiliation of the musician - Sambo: Charlie is the only child in the family of an African American, who worked in a circus with a pianist, a singer and a dancer, and Indian women from the Chocto tribe that has earned the life of floors in banks and hospitals. Judging by the photo, the facial features of the saxophonist inherited from his father.
The boy's upbringing was made predominantly mother. Having found the passion of the son who played in the school orchestra to music, a woman, despite the meager budget, bought Charlie Saxophone.
Up to 10 years, Father appeared in the life of Charlie as a festive firework, and then disappeared from the horizon of the family. However, the Parquer-younger was once discouraged due to the disappearance of the parent: a teenager rehearsed on a saxophone for 12-15 hours daily, even for study at school, no longer remained.
Personal life
At 15, Charlie married Rebecca Raffing, who graduated from the same school Abraham Lincoln, in which Parker studied. The girl was older guy for 4 years. After 2 years, the young musician first became a father, but the marriage turned out to be short.At 16, the young man became acquainted with drugs. Morphy became the first, which Parquer after the car accident prescribed a doctor as an anesthetic - the guy of the broom of 3 ribs and damaged the spine. Soon Charlie moved to heroin, and when problems arose with his purchase, alcohol consumed.
The prohibited substances led to the scandals and breakdowns of Parker's concerts. For Charlie, the reputation of an unreliable musician was entrenched. For the sake of the dose of "Medication", Parker played on the streets for the champion or laid a saxophone in Lombard.
In 1948, Charlie registered the marriage with Doris Green, which after the death of the saxophonist became the official patcher. However, the actual wife of the musician The last 5 years of life of a man was Beverly Dorothy Berg, famous for the pseudonym of Chan.
With a pretty 18-year-old Jew who worked as a dancer in a nightclub, Charlie met in 1943, but the guy and the girl remained just friends for a long time. The beauty managed to give birth from another jazz musician daughter Kim and be married to another jazzman on the name Richardson, before he agreed with Parker.
Chan gave birth to Charlie two children - the son of Baard and daughter at. The death of the baby in early 1954 at the age of three became a huge blow to Parker and returned it to dependence on the heroin, from which he got rid of. Charlie survived two suicide attempts.
The personal life of Chan described in the book "My Life in the Mi-Bömbol", the first Bayopic of the Krinta Istuda "Bird". Parker's role in the film Biographies performed Forest Whitaker.
Music
The first speeches of Charlie in the nightclubs of Kansas City are dating in 1936. In 1939, Parker moved to New York, however, the fees from speeches were scarce, and the young jazzman worked in soaking dishes in the same entertainment establishments in which he opposed.
The stages of creating a bib strength are not documented, but, according to Charlie's stories, in 1939, in 1939, in the performance of the Cherokee composition, he realized that the melody could be sent to any tonality if you apply all 12 chromatic gamut sounds. Most of the jazzmen of the Swing era critically perceived the innovation of the saxophonist. However, Benny Goodman and Colemen Hawkins participated in the new style jazz records, the benchmark of which is Charlie Bill Bons.
Although the term Third Stream to designate the synthesis of jazz and the classics introduced the composer Günther Schulller 2 years after the death of Parker, the saxophonist was interested in innovations brought into symphony and opera music Igor Stravinsky. In November 1949, he recorded a number of ballads with a mixed chamber jazz orchestra.
During his lifetime, Kansas City had almost no albums (a rare exception - a collection of 1952 Bird and Diz, created jointly with Dizzy Gillespi). Therefore, there are predominantly live concert records of the saxophonist on the plates of Charlie. The reference is considered to fulfill Parker's composition of George Gershwin Summertime.
Death
The life of Jazzman broke off on March 12, 1955 at the Stanhoul Hotel in the rooms taken by Baroness Pannonic de Königsvter. The younger daughter of the banker and the Entomologist Charles Rothschild patronized Parquer, as the 70 years earlier another lady with the same title (Nadezhda vintage Mecc) Peter Tchaikovsky.Charlie died while watching Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey concert on TV. The official causes of Parker's death were called a heart attack and a stomach ulcers, but the musician also had cirrhosis of the liver, common among heroin addicts, and pneumonia. A policeman who arrived to fix the death of the death of the deceased as 53 years old, although Charlie was not 35 years old.
The discography of the musician continued to replenish after his death. In the mid-50s of the 20th century, plates from the "Genial Charlie Parker" series came out, including Issue No. 5, on which the works of the improper saxophonist performed Cole Porter, and in the mid-1970s, the Disk "Immortal Charlie Parker".
Discography
- 1944 - The Immortal Charlie Parker
- 1945 - Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session
- 1945 - The Charlie Parker Story
- 1946 - Jazz at the Philharmonic
- 1947 - Charlie Parker Memorial
- 1947 - The Bird Blows The Blues
- 1948 - The 'Bird' Returns
- 1949 - Bird at the roost
- 1949 - The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve
- 1950 - An Evening At Home With Charlie Parker Sextet
- 1951 - The Genius of Charlie Parker
- 1952 - Bird and Diz
- 1953 - The Quartet of Charlie Parker