Django Bates, piano
Petter Eldh, bass
Peter Bruun, drums
recorded live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage, November 7, 2010
1. Billies Bounce
2. Scrapple From The Apple/ Wedges
3. My Little Suede Shoes
4. Sadness (All The Way Down)/ Star Eyes
5. Hot House/ Ex Pat
6. Ah Leu Cha
7. Confirmation
Three months ago we were able to present another great concert by Django Bates´ Beloved Bird Trio recorded at the Vortex London.
"Having heard Charlie Parker’s music from my birth onwards, I knew it was good in the way that I knew that food was good. It was nutrition: a life force. At a time when my school friends started worshipping football players, my father seized his moment and lent me “Bird Lives”; a highly romanticized view of the life of Charlie Parker. I found my hero.
Living in a boring suburb of London, I was virtually alone in my special interest. I took to whistling Bebop tunes on train station platforms in the hope of meeting other Bird obsessive, and surprisingly this actually paid off. I met saxophonist Steve Buckley through a whistled song, (which is also the way that feathered birds meet), and we rehearsed every Sunday for a year. We ruined his father’s collection of Parker 78s by slowing them down to 16 rpm and lifting the needle up every 2 beats in order to unravel the fascinating horn lines.
In 2005 I was asked to contribute to a celebration of the life of Charlie Parker at Copenhagen Jazz House. I used the opportunity to arrange compositions that I most associated with Parker; tracks like Scrapple From the Apple, Hot House, Billie’s Bounce, Laura, My Little Suede Shoes, Now’s the Time...
The acoustic piano trio is a constellation beloved of jazz listeners and players throughout the world. Seeing the Bill Evans trio at Ronnie Scott’s club weeks before he died, and The Bad Plus in Cambridge, were two of my most memorable musical experiences. I decided to use the classic trio line-up for my exploration of Bird’s music.
I believe there is no point in recording unless one has something special to say. Now’s the time to say something special: Bird Lives!" - Django Bates
Living in a boring suburb of London, I was virtually alone in my special interest. I took to whistling Bebop tunes on train station platforms in the hope of meeting other Bird obsessive, and surprisingly this actually paid off. I met saxophonist Steve Buckley through a whistled song, (which is also the way that feathered birds meet), and we rehearsed every Sunday for a year. We ruined his father’s collection of Parker 78s by slowing them down to 16 rpm and lifting the needle up every 2 beats in order to unravel the fascinating horn lines.
In 2005 I was asked to contribute to a celebration of the life of Charlie Parker at Copenhagen Jazz House. I used the opportunity to arrange compositions that I most associated with Parker; tracks like Scrapple From the Apple, Hot House, Billie’s Bounce, Laura, My Little Suede Shoes, Now’s the Time...
The acoustic piano trio is a constellation beloved of jazz listeners and players throughout the world. Seeing the Bill Evans trio at Ronnie Scott’s club weeks before he died, and The Bad Plus in Cambridge, were two of my most memorable musical experiences. I decided to use the classic trio line-up for my exploration of Bird’s music.
I believe there is no point in recording unless one has something special to say. Now’s the time to say something special: Bird Lives!" - Django Bates
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Thank you a lot! And a happy new year.
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