Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie, Hot House at Du Mont Television, February 24, 1952 (in color)

Charlie Parker Plays with Dizzy Gillespie in the Only Footage Capturing the Bird in True Live Performance (Article by Mike Springer) Heres a historic TV broadcast of the founding fathers of bebop, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, playing together in 1952. Its one of only two known sound films of Parker playingand the only one of him playing live, rather than synching to a prerecorded track. The performance is from a February 24, 1952 broadcast on the pioneering DuMont Television Network. The segment begins with a brief ceremony in which Parker and Gillespie receive awards from Down Beat magazine (Earl Wilson and Leonard feather). Follows a performance of the bebop standard Hot House, composed by Tad Dameron around the harmonic structure of Cole Porters What Is This Thing Called Love . The quintet includes Parker on alto saxophone, Gillespie on trumpet, Sandy Block on bass, Charlie Smith on drums and Dick Hyman on piano. It was Hyman, who had played with Parker and had his own nightly show on