"For the first time ever, Brooklyn's premier professional orchestra, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, is dedicating a full program to jazz, featuring the work of the late Charlie Parker, "Charlie Parker with Strings," on Feb. 13 at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. It is also the first time in more than a decade that "Charlie Parker with Strings" will be heard live in New York."
"The groundbreaking compilation album, released in 1955, became the most commercially successful chapter of Parker's career and has long been considered a turning point in jazz history. Blending Parker's improvisatory brilliance with lush string arrangements, the sessions revealed another dimension of his artistry - deeply melodic, expressive and expansive - while bridging bebop's radical language with a broader musical audience and affirming Parker's vision of jazz as an elastic art form capable of existing alongside classical traditions."
The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra will present a full program devoted to Charlie Parker's "Charlie Parker with Strings" on Feb. 13 at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. The presentation marks the orchestra's first all-jazz program and the first New York live performance of the Strings sessions in more than a decade. Alto and soprano saxophonist Vincent Herring will be featured. The Strings project melds Parker's bebop improvisation with lush string arrangements and reflects Parker's affection for classical music. The 1955 compilation became Parker's most commercially successful release and broadened jazz's audience while provoking purist criticism.
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