Gene Parrish dies at 82; longtime classical music host on radio
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- Gene Parrish dies at 82; longtime classical music host on radio
- Hearing jazz isn’t the same as listening to it
- At First Light
- n John Coltrane and Charlie Parker
- New Spots Bring ld Jazz Sounds Back to the District
Gene Parrish dies at 82; longtime classical music host on radio
Los Angeles Times CA
After the show debuted people from around the world sent Parrish music and he expanded the show’s scope. Between 1984 and 1996 he hosted and produced more than 800 “Worldwide Jazz” segments. He traveled the world documenting live performances of classical and jazz music making eight trips to Finland. Closer to home he co-produced and hosted the weekly radio series “The First Art” which highlighted modern choral music throughout the United States and Canada. The program aired on more than 200 public radio stations from 1993 to 2001. The Los Angeles native was born Nov. 11 1926 the second of two sons of Alan and Mildred Parrish.
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Hearing jazz isn’t the same as listening to it
Toronto Star Canada
A: I have mixed feelings about that. I love Herbie and I love a lot of his recordings but the Joni Mitchell thing wasn’t my favourite. And also jazz is not music for everybody and something happens when you hear jazz music in every Starbucks and you hear it in every clothing store and you hear it in the grocery stores because there’s a difference between hearing it and listening to it. Q: Isn’t the idea that the notoriety of Grammy’s top prize will lead neophytes to further investigation of jazz?A: That’s one line of reasoning but it doesn’t seem to be the case. If you like (American jazz trio) Medeski Martin & Wood and you like their style of drumming you might go back and you might go to James Brown but you also might go to Tony Williams who worked with Miles (Davis) then you might go back to Max Roach but chances are you won’t and (new listeners) don’t.
At First Light
All About Jazz PA
Among them arethe soldier-musicians from the United States Military Academy at West Point known as The Academy’s JazzKnights Big Band. They’ve launched a salvo of dazzling big band music with the self-released At FirstLight analbum of dynamite-packed swinging big band charts guaranteed to clear the smoke and leave a lastingmusical statement on the front lines of jazz. In conjunction with the West Point Concert Band and the Hellcats field music unit the Jazz Knights helpfulfill the music requirements of the Military Academy and the Army at numerous functions both at WestPoint and throughout the country. Led by CW Mathew C.
n John Coltrane and Charlie Parker
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder MN
It is not known if he was ever legally divorced. Parker died of pneumonia in 1955 in New York City. Clint Eastwood’s film Bird is darkly lit and rainy; Bernard Tavernier’s film ‘Round Midnight while not about Coltrane or Bird specifically is a jazz music delight. Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (published 1962 edited by Robert Reisner) amasses approximately 80 short vignettes and blurbs entitled “They also remember Bird” arranged alphabetically by the surnames of the peers who reminisce over the musician including Charles Mingus Dizzy Gillepsie Max Roach and Billy Eckstine. Theirs is a mass of contradictions both good and bad about the man. They said he did not show up for scheduled engagements that he was not dependable; that he fell asleep on the bandstand. “I loved Charlie Parker” Teddy Blume said of the alto saxophonist.
New Spots Bring ld Jazz Sounds Back to the District
Georgetown University The Hoya DC
It?s been described as the heart and soul of the city and Wilson?s tune pays tribute. It?s one thing for a club to provide a comfortable place to sit and enjoy good jazz music. But honoring the neighborhood having a conscious sense of place and history is something truly remarkable. In a town so maligned for its crooks and corruption a jazz club named after a politician?s bill HR-57 seems suspect. Jazz is all about improvisation freedom sticking it to the man. Right? Why name a club after a congressional resolution?The resolution introduced by Rep.