{"id":1628,"date":"2020-08-29T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:27:22","slug":"happy-100th-birthday-charlie-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/happy-100th-birthday-charlie-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th Birthday, Charlie Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig<\/h3>\n<p>(NY Times, Aug 26, 2020)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Charlie Parker\u2019s brief swing through this world kicked off a century ago on Saturday with his birth in Kansas City, Kan. Eleven years later, he would take up the saxophone. A couple of years after that, inspired by the hot bands tearing up K.C. in the \u201930s, the man who was later known as Bird dedicated himself to his instrument, the alto, woodshedding for 11 to 15 hours a day, he would later say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">A decade later, the complexity, beauty and \u201ctommy-gun velocity\u201d (as Stanley Crouch once put it) of his improvisations would hasten jazz\u2019s departure from the dance hall. With his bebop cohort of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and others, Bird declared \u201cNow\u2019s the Time,\u201d thrilling audiences and scarifying critics, who mostly took a while to catch up to the advanced harmonics and polyrhythms. His brash modernism jolted New York and then the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/26\/arts\/music\/charlie-parker-centennial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>read more<\/em><\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig (NY Times, Aug 26, 2020) Charlie Parker\u2019s brief swing through this world kicked off a century ago on Saturday with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/happy-100th-birthday-charlie-parker\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[29,32,33,31,30],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-charlie-parker","tag-bebop","tag-birthday","tag-bop","tag-jazz","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy 100th Birthday, Charlie Parker - Jazz Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/mgsa-jazz\/happy-100th-birthday-charlie-parker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy 100th Birthday, Charlie Parker - Jazz Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig (NY Times, Aug 26, 2020) Charlie Parker\u2019s brief swing through this world kicked off a century ago on Saturday with &hellip; 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