To pay tribute to someone like Charlie Parker can be an indefatigable task. Charlie Parker's music has been recorded, studied, debated and canonized for more than seventy years. You either bring something new or risk being drowned out by history. On Another Kind of Bird, drummer and bandleader Richard Baratta does not step lightly.
Joined by pianist and arranger Bill O'Connell, the delivery is bold reimagining of Parker's music, with an all-star cast, including saxophonists Eric Alexander, Abraham Burton, Craig Handy and Vincent Herring, guitarist Paul Bollenback, bassist Michael Goetz and percussionist Paul Rossman. As a result, Baratta and his bandmates deliver Parker energized, expanded and unmistakably alive!
Hear a track from Another Kind of Bird each weekday morning @ 8:20AM, another feature made possible by the members of WBGO!
Mon-"Donna Lee"
Tues-"Anthropology "
Wed-"Ah-Leu-Cha"
Thurs-"Now's The Time"
Fri-"Yardbird Suite"
