[.ca] Bird Up

awesome:
Great. I especially love track 11, Perhaps (Someday the Roof Will Get Fixed). Am I the only one?

Why?:
Why dumb down Birds music in order to make it more appealing to the MTV culture? This is like peeing on a church. My advise: Pull up your slacker pants, engage your attention span challenged mind, and buy a real Bird album; any jazz album...

THIS BIRD IS SOARING:
Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project is a mind blowing CD. I felt like I traveled to a whole new dimension with the album's futuristic, fresh and exciting sound. I think of it as the United Nations of CD's because it's such a great representation of the world of music today. From the first alluring song on the album, Red Hawk's Now's The Time (No Time Like Now), I was hooked and knew I had to get this CD. I love every song on this album that's why I especially like to listen to it on my CD Walkman. I feel so cool and free as I walk down the street. It puts a lot of extra pep in my step. For those of you looking for an amazing muscial adventure, here is your answer.

Hmmmmm.....:
Perhaps the reviewer who bemoaned this record's pandering to the "MTV culture" should take a look at the artists who are actually featured on it. Only Serj Tankian's band System Of A Down are MTV favorites. Dan The Automator's Gorillaz and the RZA's Wu-Tang Clan may get occasional MTV play, but the names of the individuals themselves are not by any means big mainstream crowd-pullers. The rest of the remixers here are as unMTV as it gets. Please refrain from belittling a creative and ambitious record with nonsensical non-criticisms.

Bird Lives Again:
I've lived a great many years on this planet, the majority of which have been accompanied by the sounds of Charlie Parker. Early on, I heard Bird's music direct from the source - Parker himself, who was, by all standards, one of a kind. Even before Bird passed in 1955, practically every player in jazz was, in some way or another, emulating his artistry. Still to this day, jazz musicians the world over hitch ride upon ride on Bird's creative coattails like some many-headed high horse of traditionalism gone far astray from its source by way of simply staying too close to home. Charlie Parker would not like what jazz has become: a shell of its former self; not much more than an apelike imitation of its bygone glory days; a bunch of recycled aluminum cans that used to be the brightest star in the night sky. That star was Bird - the original punk rocker; the original hip hopper; the original American Idol (or mine, at least). In all the years since Bird's passing, I hadn't ever heard a fitting tribute to the man more responsible than anyone else for what went on to become not only contemporary jazz, but rock and roll, hip hop and every other important musical movement this side of the 50's... until now. Bird Up - The Charlie Parker Remix Project is precisely that fitting tribute. If you believe in the raw genius that Bird brought to the table first, or even if you're intrigued by it and want to know more, then, along with some of Bird's original masterpieces (preferably those recorded in the mid to late 40's), run out and get your hands on a copy of this record. Bird's rebellious spirit lives in it. Unlike your typical jazz musician's paltry efforts to mimic Bird's stylings, this group of young musical mavericks have constructed a provocative, youthful, deeply loving eulogy which sings Charlie Parker's praises all the way up to the high heavens - straight to the source. Don't walk. For the love of Bird, run and wrap your mind around this outstanding record.

• Now's the Time (No Time Like Now) - Deke Damascus, Red Hawk
• Relaxin' at Camarillo (August 29) - Me'Shell Ndegéocello
• Salt Peanuts (The Mr. Peanut Chronicles) - Dr. John, , The Kronos Quartet, Mocean Worker, Hal Willner
• Bird of Paradise (Gone) - Serj Tankian
• Congo Blues (Silencer) - Ravi Coltrane, , Kodo, Hubert Laws,
• Bebop (Live at the Rooftop) - RZA
• Steeplechase (Sittin' on 22's) - Dan the Automator
• Cheers \oX-Ecutioners Style\c - Rob Swift, The X-ecutioners
• Night in Tunisia (Downpour) - Coconut Tree, , Kodo
• All the Shadows of Nuff - Garth Hudson, Mocean Worker, Hal Willner
• Perhaps (Someday the Roof Will Get Fixed) - Dan the Automator
• Barbados (Where Fish Fly) - Hubert Laws, Redback
• Constellation (Heavenly Bodies) - El-P,