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" Le jazz ? C'est quatre mots, dit Miles Davis. Louis - Armstrong - Charlie - Parker. " Parker incarne le jazz dans sa liberté, son invention, ses beautés. Le saxophoniste alto originaire de Kansas City exerce une influence déterminante sur le jazz tel qu'on le connaît depuis ces 60 dernières années. Il innove sur tous les plans: le découpage rythmique, l'audace harmonique, l'invention mélodique. C'est un musicien en liberté, donc excessif, marginal, au parcours musical fulgurant (seulement vingt ans, de 1935 à 1955), troué d'envolées sublimes et de descentes aux enfers abyssales. Il est la figure centrale d'une révolution. L'éruption du bebop, son irruption fracassante dans les années 1940 à New York, est le grand tournant de l'histoire du jazz. Cette biographie est non seulement le livre le plus complet sur Charlie Parker publié en France (témoignages de musiciens : Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Joe Lovano, Steve Coleman, Martial Solal, Michel Portal ; un cahier photos), c'est aussi le récit précis de cette aventure musicale qui a défrayé la chronique et fait rupture dans l'histoire de la musique noire-américaine : le bebop. Franck Médioni est journaliste et écrivain. Il a collaboré à Jazz magazine et a été producteur de l'émission " Jazzististiques " sur France Musique. Parmi une œuvre foisonnante dont plusieurs livres d'entretiens (Martial Solal, Joëlle Léandre, Sonny Rollins, Daniel Humair), il est l'auteur de John Coltrane, 80 musiciens de jazz témoignent (Actes Sud), Miles Davis, 80 musiciens de jazz témoignent (Actes Sud), Jimi Hendrix (Gallimard), George Gershwin (Gallimard) et John Coltrane, l'amour suprême (Le Castor astral).

Parker, Charlie --- Parker, Charles Christopher --- Biography --- Charlie, Parker, - 1920-1955

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Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "hard bop" in the 1950's. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer, pianist, and bandleader takes us from his childhood in Norwalk, Connecticut, through his rise to fame as a musician in New York, to his comfortable life "after the road" in California. During that time, Silver composed an impressive repertoire of tunes that have become standards and recorded a number of classic albums. Well-seasoned with anecdotes about the music, the musicians, and the milieu in which he worked and prospered, Silver's narrative-like his music-is earthy, vernacular, and intimate. His stories resonate with lessons learned from hearing and playing alongside such legends as Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His irrepressible sense of humor combined with his distinctive spirituality make his account both entertaining and inspiring. Most importantly, Silver's unique take on the music and the people who play it opens a window onto the creative process of jazz and the social and cultural worlds in which it flourishes. Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty also describes Silver's spiritual awakening in the late 1970's. This transformation found its expression in the electronic and vocal music of the three-part work called The United States of Mind and eventually led the musician to start his own record label, Silveto. Silver details the economic forces that eventually persuaded him to put Silveto to rest and to return to the studios of major jazz recording labels like Columbia, Impulse, and Verve, where he continued expanding his catalogue of new compositions and recordings that are at least as impressive as his earlier work.

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For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous-Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane-and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados-Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.

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