While we’re busy bad-mouthing jazz, let me play a couple I like a lot.
The first one I first heard in soundtrack to the movie Sorcerer (1977). The movie closes with Roy Scheider in a jungle bar dancing with the old barmaid to Charlie Parker, I’ll Remember April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUuGPN5bBw
April in Paris I discovered looking for the other one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBAIVK-JRA
I like both of them.
Thank you for opening up my ears to these gems.
My brother (who was fronting a never-sober heavy metal band 20 years ago) keep telling me:
You’ve gotta listen to Charlie Parker!
Okay, I will. Okay, I will.