Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker

Roy Haynes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dreyfus
• ASIN: B00005NVJQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,606 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Thomas Conrad, Downbeat February 2002

The execution by these five players is not only competent, it is passionate.

Product Description

Dreyfus Jazz proudly announces the release of Roy Haynes’ Birds of a Feather, a tribute to the immortal Charlie "Bird" Parker. The father of the bebop movement, Bird turned the jazz world upside down in the early 1940s with his immense technical facility and grand breaking improvisational ideas. For Haynes’ fourth recording for the label, the eminent drummer and bandleader takes us back to the era during which he made his first major impact playing alongside Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and the other legendary bop progenitors. Received 2001 Grammy Award nomination.

Kenny Garrett - Alto Sax Roy Hargrove - Trumpet Roy Haynes - Drums Dave Holland - Bass David Kikoski - Piano

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific CD!, November 15, 2001

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GaryM (Colorado USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Audio CD)

After enjoying last year's "The Roy Haynes Trio" I was anxious to hear Roy's new work and it doesn't disappoint. Roy's drum playing is revelation throughout this session. Now in his mid-seventies, he seems to just keep getting better. The group- Kenny Garrett-sax, Roy Hargrove-trumpet, Dave Kikoski-piano and Dave Holland-bass, mesh beautifully together and successfully replicate the tight sound of Parker era bebop quintets. At times they sound like the classic Roach/Brown Quintet and seconds later segue into improv that sounds as modern as any group playing today. A fine outing and highly recommended to fans of bop and post bop.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just another tired Tribute album, March 10, 2002

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Mark Diamond (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Audio CD)

Oh no, not another bloody tribute album. Don't American jazz musicians have anything original to say? Well actually they do and this CD is spectacularly original as well as being good to listen to. The arrangements are terrific, the musicians are inspired and there have been few better jazz CD's released in the last two years. Kenny Garrett's solo on the first track lifts you out of your seat and things never slacken thereafter. Don't be shy, just buy it!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If You Thought Charlie Parker was Hot Back Then . . ., March 14, 2004

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John Russon (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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Roy Haynes assembled a quintet of the hottest contemporary jazz players to reinterpret classic bebop tunes recorded by Charlie Parker (and a couple of other standards that Parker and Dizzy Gillespie used to play). This is a hot album that is not simply a pointless attempt to do again what has already been done, but is rather the use of those old tunes to show off modern jazz sensibilities. "Ah-Leu-Cha" is incredible in its interweaving of horn voices in the opening head--hearing this you think, "ah yes, THAT's what Parker was after"--and "Yardbird Suite" has a driving force that it always deserved. In some ways, this album reminds me of the music in the film "Backbeat," in which top modern pop musicians reinterpreted early Beatles music in a way that reflected modern tastes but in so doing gave the modern listener a sense of what must have been the revolutionary force heard in the originals by the audiences who first heard it. This album is easy to listen to over and over again, and it also should provide modern musicians some guidance in thinking about how to reinterpret old tunes. It will never replace Bird's own recordings, but it's a valuable companion to them. It's a great album.