# Many Birds With Strings. The American songbook with an easy listening twist: Videos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/04/many-birds-with-strings-the-american-songbook-with-an-easy-listening-twist-videos/
- Published: 2018-03-04T11:21:03+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**I love Charlie Parker With Strings. The music is so pretty and soulful, by one
of the first jazz artists to cross over to the American songbook with an easy listening
twist.**

I know many readers share my passion for these Parker recording sessions. Let’s 
listen to an example so those who aren’t familiar have a sense…

 

Yesterday, I went on YouTube and hunted around for tributes to the Parker with Strings
oeuvre. To my surprise and pleasure, I was able to net quite a cache of Bird with
mice. Let’s dig in:

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The mighty Phil Woods with the Orchestre du Conservatoire National Regional de Toulouse
from the Marciac Jazz Festival in 2005 playing _I’ll Remember April_…

 

Phil Woods in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 2001, with Hank Jones on piano playing _Everything
Happens to Me_…

Ernesto Aurignac playing _East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)_…

Danny Janklow playing _Just Friends_…

Nick Biello and the Highline Chamber playing _Just Friends_…

The Highline Chamber playing Neal Hefti’s _Repetition_…

Aaron Johnson playing _Repetition_…

Clark Gibson playing _Just Friends_…

Henry Solomon on _Just Friends._..

And finally, Robert Anchipolovsky playing _Just Friends_…

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