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John’s Substack

John Purcell

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Parkeology 032: Every Honeybee Part Two

"I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, when I was living out west. They said I was driving them crazy with the horn. I used to put in at least eleven, from el...

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Introduction to the Weekly Postings

Bird in Kansas City circa 1952

[This is an introduction to the fifty-two weekly postings, written throughout 2020, which can be found at charlieparkercentennial.com.]

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Lester's Dream

The Lester Young Band, 1941, Kelly's Stables, NYC

Is there any point in asking a question that can never be answered? The question in question is this: why did Lester Young’s style change suddenly and dramatically in 1942? It can never be...

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Parkeology 031: Every Honeybee Part One

Charlie Parker’s chronology from late 1938 to early 1940 is rather sketchy. It is known that his mentor, Buster Smith, left Kansas City for New York in 1938, and that Parker eventually followed suit. By early 1940, Parker was definitely bac...

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Parkeology 030: Child of the Prairie

Unfortunately, the surviving editor, Nat Hentoff, cannot reconstruct how the second version came to be written in such a way. Hentoff believed that Nat Shapiro edited the Parker section in question, but he felt it was unlikely that Shapiro...

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