New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
"Of course, there are exceptions: One of the reasons jazz is so appealing to large numbers of white Americans is precisely because they feel that in this black musical tradition, not just black musicians but black humanity is being asserted by artists who do not look at themselves in relation to whites or engage in self-pity or white put-down.
"This type of active, as opposed to reactive, expression is very rare in any aspect of African-American society. One usually sees either the highly assimilated black person who wants to be accepted by whites no matter what, which is symptomatic of self-doubt, insecurity and lack of power. Or, one sees someone like Louis Farrakhan, who can only assert black humanity by putting others down - a sign of moral immaturity. Unfortunately, those two modes of expression have been dominant in middle-class black America. However, one does not find this kind of 'reactive' behavior in jazz. Charlie Parker didn't give a damn.
"Jazz is the middle road between invisibility and anger. It is where self-confident creativity resides. Black music is paradigmatic of how black persons have best dealt with their humanity, their complexity - their good and bad, negative and positive aspects, without being obsessively preoccupied with whites. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Coltrane were just being themselves. And for whites interested in the humanity of the 'other,' jazz provides them with examples of sheer and rare genius - a purely American form of artistic grace and elegance emanating from its subjugated people, exiled people, degraded people."
Cornel West, Charlie Parker Didn't Give a Damn, New Perspectives Quarterly, Summer 1991
pictured at right,
Beauford Delaney,
Portrait of Charlie Parker, 1968, Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.
Genre
Jazz
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Sonny Stitt | The String | Only the Blues | Verve (Japan) | October 11, 1957 |
Ben Webster | Cottontail | King of the Tenors | Verve (Japan) | April 21, 1953 |
Ben Webster | Danny Boy | King of the Tenors | Verve (Japan) | April 21, 1953 |
Louis Armstrong | That Old Feeling | Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson | Verve (Japan) | October 14, 1957 |
Louis Armstrong | Let's Fall in Love | Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson | Verve (Japan) | October 14, 1957 |
Airbreak | ||||
Anita O'Day | You Turned the Tables on Me | Anita Sings the Most | Verve (Japan) | January 31, 1957 |
Anita O'Day | Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered | Anita Sings the Most | Verve (Japan) | January 31, 1957 |
Sonny Clark | Minor Meeting | Sonny Clark Quintets | Blue Note (Japan) | December 8, 1957 |
Sonny Clark | Tadd's Delight | Sonny Clark Trio | Blue Note (Japan) | October 13, 1957 |
Miles Davis | Tadd's Delight | 'Round About Midnight | Columbia (Mono 2014) | June 5, 1956 |
Airbreak | ||||
Kenny Dorham | Melanie | Matador | United Artists (Japan) | April 15, 1962 |
Carmen McRae | When Sunny Gets Blue | Bittersweet | Focus (Japan) | 1964 |
Carmen McRae | How Did He Look? | Bittersweet | Focus (Japan) | 1964 |
Carmen McRae | Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry | Bittersweet | Focus (Japan) | 1964 |
Lee Konitz | Foolin' Myself | Motion | Verve (Japan) | August 29, 1961 |
Airbreak | ||||
New York Contemporary Five | Consequences | Consequences | Fontana (Japan) | August 23, 1963 |
New York Contemporary Five | Sound Barrier (a.k.a. Cisum) | Consequences | Fontana (Japan) | August 23, 1963 |
The Six Winds | Monk's Mood | Elephants Can Dance | Sackville | July 5, 6, 1988 |
Roscoe Mitchell | More Cutouts | More Cutouts | Cecma Records | February 20, 1981 |
Airbreak | ||||
Roscoe Mitchell | Sing / Song | Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes | Nessa | December 11, 12, 1980 |
Roscoe Mitchell | CYP | Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes | Nessa | December 11, 12, 1980 |
Jim Carroll | Just Visiting | Life is a Killer | Giorno Poetry Systems | December 27, 1981 |
Van Morrison | Madame George | Astral Weeks | Warner Brothers | September 25, October 1, 15, 1968 |
Sonny Terry | One Monkey Don't Stop the Show | Sonny is King | Bluesville (Prestige) | 1963 |
Sonny Terry | Changed the Lock on the Door | Sonny is King | Bluesville (Prestige) | 1963 |
Airbreak | ||||
The Brass Ensemble of the Jazz and Classical Music Society featuring Miles Davis | Three Little Feelings | Facets (Miles Davis) | CBS-France | October 20, 1958 |