Django Bates celebrates Bird's birthday
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Keyboard wizard Django Bates is set to celebrate Charlie "Bird" Parker’s birthday with a performance alongside drummer Steve Davis and electric bassist Michael Mondesir at the Vortex club in London tonight. Bird would have been 86 today and Bates promises to salute the jazz legend with “a tableau created through extrapolation, deviation, variation and veneration.”
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