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Recording session: Charlie Parker Coleman Hawkins Lester Young 1950

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Youtube notes: "This is one of two surviving sound films of Charlie Parker playing (and certainly the longest; the other is only 52 seconds long). Until recently, this film was a rumor, and only still photos of it existed."

The viewers comments are interesting as they point out the problems with 1950 technology in trying to record both audio and video. This was many, many years before MTV. :laughing

Note that these guys are playing without sheet music. It is all in their heads :rad

Part 1:

Part 2: Ella sings scat at 7:23.

I was born in 1950. As Old Blue Eyes would say, "It was a very good year." :laughing
 
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