He Laughed When I Said I Knew 25 Charlie Parker Solos!

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[anthonyharris]

Vincent Herring . Love his sound. One of my favorite saxophonist.

[charlesmagness]

25 parker solos is absurd. Like that's a lot.

[ed.z.]

Memorizing solos is fine but understanding why the notes in the solos were chosen is more valuable. Listen to everything that Barry Harris says.

[pariah_carey]

I can hum All of the Solos on “Blues for Alice” from Memory. 👍

[MichaelWaters]

Vincent Herring was in a practice room next to mine when I auditioned for the jazz band at Chico State Univ. Talk about being intimidated! I assumed everyone at the college level was playing at that caliber initially. When I came out of the practice room he saw my case and said “Alright, Tenor!” Needless to say I tanked my audition! I do remember him sounding like Charlie Parker and learning that he had memorized the Omnibook!

He stayed at Chico for one semester and then went to New York, probably just at the time of the story in this post.

I heard a story that shortly after arriving in NYC he walked up to Nat Adderley and said “I’m going to join your band” I have no idea if this is true, but he was certainly good enough!

He was from Vallejo and at a young age would travel to Berkeley to study with Hal Stein, who become a mentor to me later in life.

I spoke with Vincent about that studying with Hal at a jazz festival he was performing at in Oakland years ago. I think we both remember Hal fixing us sandwiches. I’m nowhere near his level playing-wise but he was as nice as could be!

[xxczerxx]

That's pretty crazy if true in any way. I can remember at any one time, "most" of one solo (the one that I'm currently transcribing) and then snippets of solos I've learned before.

That's like being able to recite a short novel word for word.

[billabbott]

If someone had pointed out to me that the cool Parker scale that I loved but didn’t understand was just a sequence of 3 flat 9 1 7 when I was 20 I would have been so much further ahead. I had these teachers who certainly didn’t know or understand what he was doing either.

[grantkoeller]

I've always played my own solos, but i listened to all the players live and on record.

[John.IWasBlindButNowISee]

Sonny Stitt is who I've loved for 30 years been so deeply in love with his harmonizing. Don't get me wrong Yardbird literally in the most honest real way possible saved my actual life. If when I was 14 didn't stumble upon Bird in an audition for the district jazz band, if I didn't find Bird then I would have been stuck with Duke Ellington and the Lincoln Center audition with Tenor and Clarinet and because I didn't really have any improvisational freedom to get lost in. But the second and I mean the second I heard Bird I knew I found what my soul really was searching for in changes with a m2 change just for the leading tones.
When I was in my summer music classes I found Giant Steps and this song made me cry when I heard it because it's was a second Harmony I couldn't find and between Bird and Steps my deep depression disappeared and I was saved because of improvising in things like upper harmonic cycles and ringing tones etc. Cool Blues and Giant Steps got me scholarships into college but much more importantly they saved my life I couldn't have made it across the Rubicon through the misery to The Sunny Side Of The Street.

[georgebillups]

I admired his playing since the up over jazz club park slopes bkyn

[pichipachu]

loved seeing vince, charlie and hayward (typically w drums and congos) regularly at astor place in the mid 80's. they were s-c-r-e-a-m-i-n-g back then!! so good!

[lpulotu]

Good content for keen learners like myself

[raulcaldeiramusic]

They were laughing because 25 solos is nothing, barry harris once said that he had learned more than 500 solos, everyone of thoses guys were on that path too

[guardezio]

I try, though I can only get to one show a month... Maybe two if I'm lucky... Due to work. (could give up on sleep I suppose but... You know... Health, an all that)

[sethbierman]

I’d love to watch live shows, but I live in southern Illinois and barley any shows come through. Kenny G came by last year and that’s all I can think of. But what’s stopping me from traveling.

[RalphBrooker-gniv]

I saw Lou Donaldson with Hermann Foster, piano, in Quasimodo’s in Berlin. By god he was miserable. I asked him so sign the record of his that I’d just bought. He refused 😢. Never mind, saw Lee Konitz with Harold Danko. Lee was so far out. My man. Shy but a wonderful man. I don’t know what had bitten Lou that day.

[PepperWilliams_songcovers]

Vincent Herring is my #2 favorite alto player. I don't think that he would mind me saying that, especially after I tell him that my #1 favorite alto player is Cannonball Adderley

[garfieldfan]

I’ve never heard of Charlie Parker until Spider-Man 2 came out, I honestly thought he wasn’t real.

[wellington]

did he just say 'I told them I knew them solos by heart, they laughed and I didn't understand why. now I do so if you want to know you have to see people live...'? english is not my first language

[HonestSaxSound-unEdited-]

Sorry for my English, but i have not understand why he laughed..
I need aproximately 25 songs too, to play in an event like a wedding or so.
Sometimes less.. but, if i need more than this 20something that i have in my memory, then i start to read the next songs that i know but not so good.
I consider this, normal and necessary, to play in events.. or not?