Which Charlie Parker disciples are left?

[Indestructible!]

My favorite Parker disciple - Jackie McLean!!!

I know they didn't really play "together" all that much... just the occasional mentor/mentee stuff.

Wish there was some stuff circulating that had Parker and McLean together!

Cheers,

Shane

[AllenLowe]

jeez, it seems a lot of people played with Bird - I've been having some repressed memory sessions recently and do recall a night in '54, me and Bird, a couple of winos, 2 midgets, and a rabbi -

hmmm...or maybe that's just an old joke someone once told me -

[ValerieB]

charles mcpherson, louis hayes and barry harris, just to name a few.

[AllenLowe]

and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir -

[7/4]

and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir -

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I have a boot of that one. I like the part where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir start scatting break-beat and the midgets trade fours.

[AllenLowe]

them Mormons sure can swing -

[7/4]

Collectors talk in hushed tones about film of Mormons break dancing.

[7/4]

but I have never seen any.

[brownie]

Two who recorded with Bird and are still around:

Sonny Rollins and Annie Ross (she swings more than all those Mormons!)

[AllenLowe]

well, I hear Brigham Young did a mean scat - unfortunately he died before the invention of recording technology - though I heard rumor of a bootleg cassette -

[Ron S]

I actually know for a fact that Allen Lowe DID once play with Bird:

[Free For All]

Mitch Miller! Yes, he's still around!

[DukeCity]

Free For All beat me to it!

I thought of Mitch Miller, but didn't know he was still around...

[Free For All]

I thought of Mitch Miller, but didn't know he was still around...

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I thought of him because he was dating a member of the Santa Fe Opera orchestra (my wife's summer gig). I was surprised he was still around.

We had this record at home when I was a young'un.

I didn't know he played oboe until I saw his name on the Bird recording.

EDIT: I know the thread is about actual "disciples", and we're just listing anyone who played/recorded with Bird. Still interesting, though.

Edited September 23, 2005 by Free For All

[7/4]

well, I hear Brigham Young did a mean scat - unfortunately he died before the invention of recording technology - though I heard rumor of a bootleg cassette -

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She-hit. You should hear La Monte Young sing Raga.

[Big Wheel]

Frank Morgan would certainly count as a disciple, though I don't know if he ever played with Bird.

[Bright Moments]

surely clark terry must have played with bird at some time?

[JSngry]

Frank Morgan would certainly count as a disciple, though I don't know if he ever played with Bird.

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He did, and you beat me to it.

[JSngry]

James Moody.

[Big Wheel]

Has Konitz been mentioned yet? Should he count?

[Free For All]

Did Barry Harris play with Bird? How about Tommy Flanagan?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

This is the idea of a "Bird Number" - analogous to the "Erdös Number" for mathematicians who published papers with Paul Erdös - see here:

http://www.oakland.edu/enp/

You can get a decent start on researching Bird Numbers by going here:

http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/BirdQuery.aspx

and looking at the drop-down list for Musicians. This is (theoretically) all the people who recorded alongside Bird. If someone on that list is living, they've got a Bird Number of 1 (Bird himself would be 0).

Mike

[Free For All]

[Joe M]

Lou Donaldson?

[AllenLowe]

Barry Harris played with Bird one night at a club in Detroit (it may have been the Rouge; Barry told me about it 25 years ago so my memory is sketchy) - also, thanks, Ron, for confirming that repressed memory - now on to other psychiatric flashbacks -