Every Film of Charlie Parker, 10A: Bonuses for Paying Subscribers

Dear Paying Subscribers,

I owe many thanks for your support, which allows me to spend many, many hours researching and writing these essays. This time I have two bonus items for you. Both were prepared by subscriber James Accardi, who is knowledgeable about jazz and about old audio. First, he has provided a copy of Chan’s personal audio recording of the Parker and Gillespie TV broadcast. As you’ll hear, the TV volume is low, and the family is talking during the show. Chan says something softly at 0:12 to her daughter Kim, who was about 5-and-a-half years old. Little Pree, about 7 months old, is wailing in the background at the beginning and softly during Dizzy’s solo, and more loudly during the piano solo. At 0:44 Kim says something about “Daddy,” and at 2:35 she says something longer, I think about Pree crying, and she ends with “I don’t like that.”

So Chan’s tape is definitely not a good audio source for the music. But Chan left her tape running after the music ended, and she captured Earl Wilson’s closing words in more complete form than the film clip does. So James took the audio from the three parts of the “Hot House” film that I shared with you in Part 9, added the end of Chan’s recording, and adjusted the volume and sound quality, to make the most complete audio ever of this famous 1952 performance!

Both of these gifts are below for you, and I will continue to share rare items with you that are relevant to my essays, as I have been doing all along.

THANKS AGAIN!

All the best,
Lewis