Charlie Parker Lives

ST. THOMAS CHURCH, LEIPZIG TAKE TWO: MASTER MUSICIAN MOZART PLAYED THE ORGAN HERE IN 1789/FIRST JAZZMAN BACH WORKED HERE (LISTEN TO MASS IN B MINOR)

THERE IS NO TIME IN (MUSICAL) ART AND LOVE [PH LINE]: ST. THOMAS CHURCH IN LEIPZIG, WHERE J.S. BACH SERVED AS CANTOR 1723-1750

Birdsong for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Note: This bird was singing in "The Old East Germany," about 200 miles from where Herr Mozart was born in Salzburg.

Video (c) copyright Paul Heidelberg

Kirchenmusik/Music In A Church In Germany Where J.S. Bach Performed On The Organ

CHARLIE PARKER IN PARIS STORY -- FROM PARIS, 2009

This is a real, on the run, blog.

So I am getting off the flight from Dulles in DC to CDG in Paris on March 26, 2009, and I am talking to a brother from Chicago about the blues and jazz. I started by telling him I am working on a fiction project, "The Bluesmen."

He says, "Yeah, well I'm from Chicago, home of the blues."

"Yeah," I said, "after the blues greats moved up from the Mississippi Delta -- John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, all those great guys. I was in Clarksdale, Mississippi a year ago this month. The heart of the Delta Blues country. And when you see how big those cotton fields are, you get an idea of how the blues was born there."

Then I thought very quickly of the alto sax great Charlie Parker, The Bird. I got very emotional.

"You know," I said, "Charlie Parker flies into Paris and he's getting off the plane. All these people are applauding and cheering. The Bird looks around, and then realizes: They're cheering for me, man. They're cheering for me."

WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH THE RISING SUN...

...and played track four of my digitally-remastered version of Bob Marley and The Wailers' "Legend" album.

If you do not have this work, get it, in whatever format you prefer; then put on the fourth track and listen to Mr. Marley's fine poetry and also listen to the song's fine bass work.