Bird Lives John Beasley, Magnus Lindgren & SWR Big Band SKU: ACTLP9934-1 Barcode: 0614427993410 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT Released Date: 13th October 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 2020 wasn’t just Beethoven’s year, it was also the centenary of Charlie Parker’s birth. And if it hadn’t been for the pandemic, the world would have seen notices of all kinds of major concerts to celebrate the legacy of Bird (as Charlie Parker was known), one of the giants of jazz; one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century; the co-inventor of bebop; and probably the most important and influential saxophonist in jazz. Magnus Lindgren was voted Sweden’s Best Jazz Musician in 2001, he has gone on to win many important prizes internationally. He says: “When I started playing the saxophone at 13, Charlie Parker was my ultimate hero, so this project really does bring me full circle.” Lindgren has been Artist In Residence with the SWR Big Band since 2018, a post which has been renewed for him for another three years. He has overseen an ongoing development in the band’s sound both through reinforcing its engagement as a specialist ensemble in orchestral jazz, and also by exploring various projects involving modern reinterpretations and makeovers of works from the jazz / big band canon. John Beasley’s work as composer-arranger and pianist extends beyond jazz into film and television, notably alongside Thomas Newman working on ‘1917’, James Bond ‘Skyfall’ and ‘Spectre’. Beasley has nine GRAMMY nominations and won Best Arrangement for Charlie Parker’s ‘Donna Lee’ in 2021. Beasley is Music Director for International Jazz Day global gala concerts hosted by the Herbie Hancock Jazz Institute. His 2016 ‘Jazz in the White House’ earned Beasley an Emmy nomination for Best Musical Direction. ‘Bird Lives’ feels like a soundtrack for an imaginary film co-written by Lindgren and Beasley. The SWR Big Band performs with a string section of 10 players, but this recording is not a recreation of Par-ker’s ‘Bird With Strings’ albums. “We wanted to introduce new generations to Bird’s music, but we also wanted Bird fans to hear his music in a fresh and new approach,” Beasley explains, noting that near the end of his life, Parker idolised Edgard Varese and was longing to bring more structure, depth and variety into the way he wrote for orchestra. “We didn’t want to repeat what that has been done before, but rather create something different,” adds Lindgren. The choice of compositions is true to the duo’s aim: there are Parker originals such as ‘Scrapple from the Apple’, bursting with bebop, and there are also some of his favourite standards, such as the opening ‘Cherokee/Koko’ mash-up and the grand finale, ‘Overture to Bird’. But above all the great arrangements suit the context: they not only play to the strengths of the classic big band and of Parker’s endlessly inventive music, but also enhance them with newer stylistic elements, such as a joyous celebratory funk reading of ‘Confirmation’. Charlie Parker was still in the early stages of working with orchestras when he died at the tragically early age of 34. ‘Bird Lives’ may chart the territory of fulfilled dreams that Parker was not able to explore in his short lifetime. This recording has nothing of the ‘museum piece’ about it: this is music both of and for our time. Artist John Beasley, Magnus Lindgren & SWR Big Band Genre Jazz Label ACT Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Cherokee/Koko (Ray Noble, Charlie Parker) Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) Scrapple from the Apple/Ah Leu Cha (Charlie Parker / arr. by John Beasley) I´ll Remember April (Gene Paul, Don Raye / arr. by John Beasley) Confirmation (Charlie Parker) Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) Laura (David Raksin) Overture to Bird (Charlie Parker, Barry Harris, DavidRaksin, George Gershwin, Gene DePaul / arr. by Magnus Lindgren) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Oded Tzur Here Be Dragons Jazz | ECM | 1LP Released 21st February 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oded Tzur Here Be Dragons £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 0847426 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stanley Turrentine Sugar Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 21st May 2009 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Stanley Turrentine Sugar £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: CTI6005 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st May 2009 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Ben Webster See You at the Fair Jazz | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th February 2011 £55.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Webster See You at the Fair £55.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AIPJ65 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th February 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone Little Girl Blue (2021 – Stereo Remaster) Jazz | BMG Rights Management | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th December 2021 £19.00 - £22.00 Select options Nina Simone Little Girl Blue (2021 – Stereo Remaster) £19.00 - £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG Rights Management Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th December 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Sonny Rollins Plus Four Jazz | Concord | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th May 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Rollins Plus Four £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord SKU: 7235114 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Binker Golding Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy Jazz | Gearbox | 1LP Released 17th June 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Binker Golding Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1578 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nina Simone & Dj Maestro Little Girl Blue Remixed Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 9th October 2020 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nina Simone & Dj Maestro Little Girl Blue Remixed £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1571 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dexter Gordon Daddy Plays the Horn Jazz | BMG Rights Management | 1LP Released 7th January 2022 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dexter Gordon Daddy Plays the Horn £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538681703 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th January 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Oan Kim Oak Kim & the Dirty Jazz Jazz | Artwork Records | 2LP Released 20th January 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oan Kim Oak Kim & the Dirty Jazz £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Artwork Records SKU: ARTR2201LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Medeski A Different Time Jazz | Okeh | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 25th July 2013 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Medeski A Different Time £18.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Okeh SKU: AOKEH44246 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 25th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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