Bird Up - The Charlie Parker Remix Project [EAC-FLAC] [RePoPo]

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Bird Up - The Charlie Parker Remix Project

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CD: Charlie Parker and Miles Davis - Bird Up (The Originals)

Companion album to Bird Up - The Charlie Parker Remix Project



01. Now's The Time [0:03:18.07]

02. Relaxin' at Camarillo [0:03:02.55]

03. Salt Peanuts [0:03:19.35]

04. Bird of Paradise [0:03:12.20]

05. Bebop [0:02:53.25]

06. Steeplechase [0:03:13.30]

07. Cheers [0:03:00.15]

08. A Night in Tunisia [0:03:05.35]

09. Perhaps [0:02:34.45]

10. Barbados [0:02:29.55]

11. Constellation [0:02:06.15]





CD: Bird Up (The Charlie Parker Remix Project)



01. Red Hawk & Deke Damascus / Now's The Time (No Time Like Now) [0:03:30.37]

02. Me'Shell NdegeOcello / Relaxin' at Camarillo (August 29) [0:05:58.50]

03. Hal Willner, Kronos Quartet & Dr. John / Salt Peanuts (The Mr. Peanut

Chronicles) [0:04:52.25]

04. Serj Tankian / Bird of Paradise (Gone) [0:03:54.25]

05. Donk, Ravi Coltrane, Wild Children & Hubert Laws / Congo Blues (Silencer)

[0:03:51.10]

06. Choco & RZA / Bebop (Live at the Rooftop) [0:03:58.35]

07. Dan the Automator / Steeplechase (Sittin' on 22's) [0:04:03.68]

08. Rob Swift & X-Ecutioners / Cheers (X-ecutioners Style) [0:03:31.70]

09. Donk, Coconut Tree & Kodo / A Night in Tunisia (Downpour) [0:03:39.00]

10. Hal Willner, Garth Hudson & Mocean Worker / All the Shadows of Nuff

[0:03:52.50]

11. Dan the Automator / Perhaps (Someday the Roof Will Get Fixed)

[0:03:45.70]

12. Matthew Backer, Hubert Laws & Redback / Barbados (Where Fish Fly)

[0:04:13.55]

13. El P & Stephanie Vézina / Constellation (Heavenly Bodies) [0:04:34.25]







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SOME REVIEWS

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Taiwanfun.com (august 2004)

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Before "Bird Up!" found a permanent home in our five-disk-changer, we will admit

that it sat for months, unreviewed, unappreciated and just plain unopened. We

thought, "Another bunch of DJs, turntablists, and latter-day funksters get

turned loose in the vaults of a jazz legend, Charlie Parker." There was US2

messing up "Blue Note," Thievery Corp (and the like) having their way with

"Verve," Jazzmatazz making jazz palatable for us kiddies with modern beats,

loops, scratches, and MCs. So we got around to listening to "Bird Up!" and,

well, son of a gun! If this ain't the dopest thing we've laid our ears on in

ages. The wide-ranging artists on this project don't treat us like children.

They re-construct Charlie Parker's music. We get Me'shell Ndegeocello's

sophisticated urban funk on "Relaxin' at Camarillo," Rob Swift of the X-

ecutioners making like Picasso on the turntables giving us an aural cubist

version of "Cheers." Serj Tankian (from System of a Down!) gets trippy on "Bird

of Paradise." Dan the Automator drops a couple of mind-blowing remixes--nay, re

-combinations--which are faves around here. The spirit of Charlie Parker is

remixed. His tunes are refocused, reunited, remembered and respected.







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Allmusic.com Review by Al Campbell

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Bird Up: The Originals, the companion disc to Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix

Project, contains 11 remastered tracks recorded between 1945 and 1948. Even

though the running time could be longer, this budget disc sounds great and is

highly recommended to those unfamiliar with the brilliant bebop saxophonist and

his equally apt cohorts, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Red

Norvo, and John Lewis. While the Remix Project is interesting, this edition of

Bird Up is the real thing.





Allmusic.com Review by David Jeffries

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The idea of an album that remixes the Savoy output of Charlie Parker may be

horrifying for some, but before you join the purist mob take a gander at the

names involved. Producer Matthew Backer has picked quite a crew of tasteful

mavericks to remix the saxophonist, and Hal Willner's multiple appearances alone

pay respect to the man who made tribute albums exciting. Willner's Whoops, I'm

an Indian project turns "Salt Peanuts" into a musical genre-hopping wild ride

with the Kronos Quartet providing the screechy edge and Dr. John laying down

some boogie. It could have been a royal mess, but it isn't. Dan the Automator

bends the recordings with a smirk and funk, but he's totally outdone by the

turntables of the X-Ecutioners, who scratch right along with an especially hot

Parker solo. Me'Shell NdegéOcello plays some deep, intuitive bass to a rather

choppy "Relaxin' at Camarillo," and "All the Shadows of Nuff" finds Garth

Hudson's keyboards adding the needed lyrical touch to Willner's quick

juxtaposition of four separate Parker tunes. System of a Down's frontman, Serj

Tankian, provides the album's highlight, sounding like Tom Waits and Bono's love

child on the eerie and yearning rave-up "Bird of Paradise (Gone)." Naysayers

should hear RZA scatting along with Bird, El-P's trippy mix, or Hubert Laws'

expressive flute runs before dismissing the album entirely. Too many likeminded

productions with their echoes and crackles make the album easier to take in

small doses. Bird Up at least captures the innovative spirit of Charlie Parker,

doesn't do any damage to the icon of hip, and makes for an exciting listen.







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Allaboutjazz.com Review by C. Michael Bailey

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Yes, Kate, you are a very good woman… then again, you may be the Antichrist.



—Doc Holliday to One-Eyed Kate in Tombstone (1993)



Depending on one’s perspective, Bird Up! Is the greatest thing since sliced

bread or the worst thing since Heaven’s Gate. The premise is provocative. The

urban music called jazz has been updated with the urban music of hip-hop and

techno/sampling. Sampling of jazz tunes is nothing new; jazz, particularly soul

jazz, has been broadly sampled by DJs. Why not remix Charlie Parker? Anthony

Braxton totally deconstructed the Parker canon on his Charlie Parker Project,

1993 (HatART) to adventuresome effect, albeit the old-fashioned way.



I allowed a close friend (not a jazz fan) to listen to Bird Up! and he suggested

that this music would be well suited for listening in a large metropolitan area

on a Walkman. Or better yet, a boom box. It's dense and crowded with sounds and

ideas that provoke a certain low hum of anxiety. Not necessarily a bad anxiety,

just the kind that surrounds change and evolution in the music – socially,

culturally, and otherwise. These are gritty urban takes on the high art of Bird

and none of the songs suffer for it. This trippy mix blends techno-hip-hop with

Parker recordings weaving in and out of the musical/creative maelstrom. "Now's

the Time," Night in Tunisia," and "Barbados" best illustrate this.



The end result makes one reconsider not just jazz or hip-hop, but all music. I

cannot say that this music is good or bad... it simply is. I would, however,

encourage even the most conservative listeners to pay attention to this disc. It

is inventive and re-creative— very much in the spirit of Parker.







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Credits of Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project...



* Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Bass, Producer, Construction

* RZA - Vocals, Producer, Construction

* Teddy Reig - Producer

* Larry Schreiber - Producer

* John Sherba - Violin

* Hal Willner - Group Member

* Ross Russell - Producer

* Ravi Coltrane - Sax (Soprano)

* Matthew Cullen - Engineer

* J.J. Stelmach - Art Direction

* Herman Leonard - Photography

* Dan the Automator - Producer, Mixing, Construction, Engineer

* Rob Swift - Producer, Construction, Engineer, Mixing

* Tom Luekens - Pro-Tools

* The X-ecutioners - Scratching

* Jennifer Culp - Cello

* Mocean Worker - Group Member

* Serj Tankian - Vocals, Producer, Construction

* Dan Marx - Production Coordination

* Raymond Angry - Organ (Hammond)

* Emily Lazar - Mastering

* Redback - Vocals

* Matthew Baker - Producer, Construction, Mixing, Engineer

* Robert Parent - Photography

* Dave Dar - Engineer

* Scott Johnson - Graphic Design

* Astacio The Nudist - Guitar

* Stephen Prutsman - String Arrangements

* Sarah Register - Assistant Mastering Engineer

* Nasa - Engineer, Mixing

* Ari Raskin - Engineer, Mixing

* Stephanie Vezina - Vocals, Vocal Producer, Vocal Arrangement

* Coconut Tree - Vocals

* Deke Damascus - Sax (Soprano)

* Michael Dobmeier - Engineer

* Eyal Marcovici - Assistant Engineer

* J.D. Martinson - Executive Producer

* Mermaids - Vocals (Background)

* Red Hawk - Vocals, Producer, Construction

* Brando Rondo - Producer

* TP Big Beatz "The Professor" - Engineer

* Wild Children - Vocals

* Hal Willner's Whoops I'm An Indian - Producer, Construction

* Choco - Producer, Construction

* Kodo - Taiko Drums

* Martin Brumbach - Group Member

* Chris 'Daddy' Dave - Programming, Producer

* Hank Dutt - Viola

* Eric Gast - Engineer

* David Harrington - Violin

* Garth Hudson - Synthesizer, Piano, Roland Synthesizer

* Dr. John - Piano

* Hubert Laws - Flute



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