I Got Ants In My Plants
(And I Want To Dance) My apology to other James Brown fans.
Today, August 29, would be the 100th birthday of Charlie 'Bird' Parker. He lived too fast and died too young. He and a few other jazz musicians are credited with developing a jazz style that he called bebop in the 1950s. When he died at 35 years old, a beat jazz poet who shared a room with Bird, Ted Joans, went around NYC painting 'Bird Lives' as graffiti. Joans' motto was "Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view".
Parker died on March 12, 1955, in the suite of his friend and patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Stanhope Hotel in New York City, while watching The Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show on television. The official causes of death were lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer, but Parker also had an advanced case of cirrhosis and had suffered a heart attack. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age.[Wikipedia]
I Got Ants In My Plants
(And I Want To Dance) My apology to other James Brown fans.
Today, August 29, would be the 100th birthday of Charlie 'Bird' Parker. He lived too fast and died too young. He and a few other jazz musicians are credited with developing a jazz style that he called bebop in the 1950s. When he died at 35 years old, a beat jazz poet who shared a room with Bird, Ted Joans, went around NYC painting 'Bird Lives' as graffiti. Joans' motto was "Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view".
Parker died on March 12, 1955, in the suite of his friend and patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Stanhope Hotel in New York City, while watching The Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show on television. The official causes of death were lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer, but Parker also had an advanced case of cirrhosis and had suffered a heart attack. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age.[Wikipedia]