Episode 885 is coming once again from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I’m featuring a fifth and final hour of music from Charlie Parker in honor of the 100th aniversary of his birth in Kansas City on August 29, 1920. This hour features music Bird recorded for Norman Granz releases on the Norgran, Mercury & Verve labels in the first half of the 1950s, and several cuts from what’s called “The Greatest Jazz Concert of All Time” at Massey Hall in Toronto with Bird, Dizzy, Bud Powell, Mingus & Max Roach on May 15, 1953. Bird passed away at the age of 34 just two years later, on March 12, 1955. Bird lives!
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
HOT HOUSE
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 885
Cass Corridor, Detroit, October 7, 2020 [20649]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Charlie Parker with the Miles Davis Sextet: Serpent’s Tooth (January 30, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Kim (December 30, 1952)
Charlie Parker: All the Things You Are (May 15, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Hot House (May 15, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Perdido (May 15, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Wee (May 15, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Old Folks (May 25, 1953)
Charlie Parker: In The Still of the Night (May 25, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Chi Chi (July 28, 1953)
Charlie Parker: Now’s the Time (July 28, 1953)
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me (July 5, 1950)
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2020 The John Sinclair Foundation
