• [ Take 2 ] The title of this tune should be taken literally!
  
  1999-06-14
  
  
  
• A LOVELY LILTING JUMP TUNE WITH BIRD AT HIS WHIMSICAL BEST!! ONE OF MANY OF COURSE! LET'S NOT FORGET ALL THE TUNES ON THE JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL RECORD RECORDED IN TORONTO WHEN I WAS THERE AS A BOY IN 1953 I THINK!! I WAS THAT CLOSE TO HIM. A BLOCK AWAY ACTUALLY BUT I WAS ONLY 10 YEARS OLD!! SIGH!
  
  1999-06-14
  
  
  
• I love all of Bird's music. but I could only put one song here.
  
  1999-10-24
  
  
  
• The song that defintely made Parker the greatest musician in the 20th century!After this song. no one came close to his creative genius!
  
  1999-12-18
  
  
  
• First Song I learned to play and is still my favorite.
  
  2000-01-20
  
  
  
• This is unmistakably Parker's best..
  
  2000-02-03
  
  
  
• There are so many Charlie Parker tunes I love that it made it difficult to pick just one. but I did. Yardbird Suite is simply a tune that gets in your head. and unlike other songs doesn't get old. This song is not his only. but definitly one of "The Bird's" greatest songs.
  
  2000-02-03
  
  
  
• oh yeah
  
  2000-03-11
  
  
  
• I love this song. I have performed it and it is quite difficult. It is pretty slow. but it doesn't matter much when you are playing 64th note triplets.
  
  2000-04-12
  
  
  
• au privave is the best
  
  2000-05-19
  
  
  
• His sound is so rich and plesant. It give me chills every time I hear him play.
  
  2000-05-27
  
  
  
• It's Great!
  
  2000-05-27
  
  
  
• magical
  
  2000-05-29
  
  
  
• A song dedicated to one of his best friends of youth. a detail of what Parker's life was
  
  2000-06-04
  
  
  
• it sounds cool
  
  2000-06-12
  
  
  
• not bad
  
  2000-07-13
  
  
  
• hard to choose man it's all my favourite
  
  2000-07-14
  
  
  
• Is a very impressive melody
  
  2000-07-22
  
  
  
• It all starts with this one song.
  
  2000-07-23
  
  
  
• It was cool.
  
  2000-08-19
  
  
  
• its the best jazz chart ever written
  
  2000-08-21
  
  
  
• It's one helluva hard thing to pick one title!
  
  2000-08-24
  
  
  
• I AM A LIFELONG FAN OF THE CHARLIE PARKER. WHOM IN MY OPINION HAVE TO BE THE GREATEST SAXOPHONE PLAYER OF ALL TIME. THE ABOVE SONG IS ONLY ONE OF THE MANY COMPOSITIONS THAT I LIKE.
  
  2000-09-17
  
  
  
• parkers Cherokee-improvisations gives you a kick that is second to none.
  
  2000-09-19
  
  
  
• he wrote passport & visa @ the happiest time in his life...when he went to sweden and was treated withrespect...bill from Seattle
  
  2000-10-03
  
  
  
• Its so melodic and not too tricky like some of his other tunes
  
  2000-10-26
  
  
  
• it sums up charlies style
  
  2000-11-14
  
  
  
• Bird's intro is magic. Just the first four bars. man. Forget the rest of it. PJ
  
  2000-12-20
  
  
  
• I LOVE EVERYTHING CHALIE PARKER EVER ARRANGED AND PLAYED. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LIKE HIM.
  
  2001-01-08
  
  
  
• A classic with the soul & heart of charlie
  
  2001-02-04
  
  
  
• THIS SONG IS KICKIN'!!!!!!
  
  2001-02-10
  
  
  
• It rules
  
  2001-04-26
  
  
  
• This song is amazing
  
  2001-05-29
  
  
  
• With this song he proved that ballads also fell under his fertile imagination and prodigious technique!
  There is more soul expressed in this performance than all those before him and after him!(all musicians that is).
  Will there ever be another like him? I doubt it!
  
  2001-10-11
  
  
  
• ( 12March49@Royal Roost ) This is the favorite @ this time of my life. I love the Royal Roost sessions.
  
  2001-11-28
  
  
  
• this song is sooooooo influential and energising
  
  2002-01-13
  
  
  
• Bird is the BEST ballad player
  
  2002-03-08
  
  
  
• What FEELING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  2002-04-24
  
  
  
• hints of nights in tunisia. imnor key. jagged angular melody
  
  2002-05-25
  
  
  
• cause it's my name
  
  2002-07-27
  
  
  
• great!!!
  
  2002-08-31
  
  
  
• I started collecting Parker's music since 1953. Charlie Parker is by far the greatest Alto saxophonist who ever lived.
  
  2002-09-14
  
  
  
• its awesome.
  
  2002-09-21
  
  
  
• Off the Live at Birdland CD w/ Art Blakey Fats Narvarro.
  
  2003-01-24
  
  
  
• Where do you go from Ko KO
  Angus G.
  
  2003-02-03
  
  
  
• listen to birds best bop on verve. birds favorite chord is the #11.
  
  2003-02-10
  
  
  
• A joyous affirmation of life
  
  2003-03-16
  
  
  
• a great tune by the genius bird.thanks for the great site greetings from australia
  
  2003-04-01
  
  
  
• This song kicks butt! I play it all the time by memory...
  
  2003-04-13
  
  
  
• I didn't like this one as much as Ornithology. but then I heard Mr. Bungle's cover of it and now the melody is stuck in my head. Very catchy. and not as unplayable as Ko Ko
  
  2003-05-09
  
  
  
• Im playing it at the momment and its bridge and changers are real hard
  haddon
  
  2003-06-10
  
  
  
• love it
  
  2003-07-06
  
  
  
• This sums up Charlie Parker's blues style......
  I Highly recomend this tune! Listen to the final Chorus after the drums.... Magical
  
  2003-08-22
  
  
  
• GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
  
  2003-09-05
  
  
  
• This is the catchiest tune...I sing it to myself when I'm walking inbetween classes. Either that or nows the time!
  
  2003-10-20
  
  
  
• I love the version of Jaco Pastorius.
  
  2003-10-21
  
  
  
• its obuiously the best! the chord changes rock to solo on and it keeps such a good swing. you can do anything with the song double time. half time or just jam out its awesome!
  
  2003-11-11
  
  
  
• e un bellissimo racconto in forma di note.un fluente discorso che evoca immagini e stati d'animo con l'immediatezza che solo gli odori e i profumi possono eguagliare.
  un talento straordinario.
  
  2003-11-15
  
  
  
• I play the song with improvisation
  
  2003-12-07
  
  
  
• When I heard this tune for the first time. it struck me like a flash. This is the essance of improvisation.
  
  2004-01-12
  
  
  
• (evening at home version) see my comments on the album.
  
  2004-02-03
  
  
  
• Clearly the best of Bird's compositions.
  
  2004-02-05
  
  
  
• Blew me away the first time I heard it. and hooked me on bird
  
  2004-02-17
  
  
  
• No song has ever been written like this. ever.
  
  2004-03-04
  
  
  
• charlie parker rocks
  
  2004-03-14
  
  
  
• pour sa descente chromatique gniale
  
  2004-05-14
  
  
  
• excellent!
  
  2004-06-22
  
  
  
• I eard for the first time this tune when I was 14. and so I became a jazzlover: it's simply the best.
  
  2004-07-16
  
  
  
• so lovely
  
  2004-08-05
  
  
  
• The feeling of this song is awesome. beautiful.
  
  2004-08-14
  
  
  
• I first heard it on a cut-out 8-track of what was supposed to be a Miles Davis collection. The tape turned out to be Dial sessions that Davis played on.
  Love the way it bounces along.
  
  2004-08-21
  
  
  
• This is my favorite no all-time favorite Jazz song. I'd never heard Jazz before and this song saved me. It made a true Jazz fan out of me.
  
  2004-08-26
  
  
  
• I kinda think that theres no such thing as a bad Parker song. I Love Them ALL. and my life will never be the same after finding Bird. Busterphenajo. 8/2004
  
  2004-08-28
  
  
  
• Sublime
  
  2004-09-19
  
  
  
• How can you resist it?
  
  2004-10-02
  
  
  
• After a terrific piano intro the band swings right into the Caribean Sea. Great and joyfull music.
  
  2004-10-07
  
  
  
• The ultimate Charlie Parker song. This is the one that changed everything and let people know that Bird was second to none.
  
  2004-10-22
  
  
  
• kiss
  
  2004-11-14
  
  
  
• This is my l950's!!
  
  2004-12-02
  
  
  
• The wit and the guts
  
  2005-01-06
  
  
  
• It convinced me that life is worth living and stopped me from taking my own life. Thanks Charlie!!!
  
  2005-02-04
  
  
  
• This song is incredibly fast at 324 beats per minute. It's amazing.
  
  2005-02-13
  
  
  
• Charlies finest blues. and what seems to me the true aura of the man. Lots of love Charlie.............
  
  2005-04-19
  
  
  
• Killin!
  
  2005-04-21
  
  
  
• Rarely heard masterpiece by his best Quintet.
  
  2005-04-22
  
  
  
• The most brilliant improvisation on Embraceable You ever recorded!
  
  2005-07-14
  
  
  
• with Bud Powell, Max Rorch
  
  2005-08-01
  
  
  
• Considering the circumstances, a breathtakingly beautiful, unique piece of music. Mingus said it best...
  
  2005-08-17
  
  
  
• My favorite bird song fast 16th notes
  I pretty much mastered this song and i'm 13 years old
  
  2005-12-06
  
  
  
• I really enjoy this one. I played it with the sax teacher at my summer band program.
  
  2006-01-01
  
  
  
• My favorite is take C. But I do like how the takes progress from "all the things you are" in both Bird's & Miles' solos
  
  2006-01-04
  
  
  
• yo' this nigga knew how to blow the biatch so well...this is for you..my nigga
  
  2006-01-24
  
  
  
• This song really gets you moving!
  
  2006-03-06
  
  
  
• This is the only one I can play
  
  2006-05-24
  
  
  
• This composition brilliantly illustrates the "democracy" element in jazz that Wynton Marsalis often points out when speaking about this tremendous art form.
  
  2006-06-21
  
  
  
• I'm enjoying taking this tune appart.
  
  2006-07-11
  
  
  
• "Warming Up A Riff" is over "Cherokee" changes, from the same recording date that produced the famous "Koko"(also "Cherokee" changes). His playing on this tune is so relaxed and unpressured.
  This tune was reportedly not an intended take, but the recordist captured it: during the recording session, Bird's alto sax stopped working, and it was sent out for an immediate repair. When it came back, Bird tested it out, and this tune was the test!! Lucky for us the engineer kept his tape running!! Its Dizzy playing piano behind Bird!
  To me this piece is one of the most consistently thematic works that Bird ever blew, and has a very special depth. Because of the way the motives are so frequently used and intertwined, and very expressive unto themselves, Bird has really devised a beautiful set of superlatives that he can magically exploit. These provide him with opportunities to establish a system of many different expectations, in which small deviations yield big beautiful surprises. The promises he makes are gifts in themselves. And it is so rhapsodic! I could go on and on -but for me the way the story is told is indistinguishable from the story. He struts, he rejoices, he grieves, teaches, implores, gives up, perseveres, slam-dunks, caresses- these are just some of my feelings about this work. So many times Bird celebrates grief- what a teaching!
  
  2006-07-12
  
  
  
• His solo on this this song is so good that they had to throw Lester ''Prez'' Young on the stage because nobody else could follow it.
  
  2006-07-24
  
  
  
• Simply the best tune
  
  2006-09-25
  
  
  
• the solo on this, with its magical break at the start, is beautiful, reflective and breathtaking, plus he has diz and max and bud and mingus surrounding him. Fabulous.
  
  2007-01-01
  
  
  
• Absolutely amazing...!
  
  2007-01-20
  
  
  
• very hard to point the best, but the winner is ... Au Privave!
  
  2007-01-22
  
  
  
• bird! the greatest ever
  
  2007-02-20
  
  
  
• If this doesn't do it, NOTHING will!!
  
  2007-02-23
  
  
  
• just great he found the sweet notes !
  
  2007-04-15
  
  
  
• no comment needed
  
  2007-05-06
  
  
  
• Fucking amazing. How he did it is unbelievable. 328 beats a minute, three minutes of insanity. Absolutely unbelievable.
  
  2007-05-12
  
  
  
• excellant!
  
  2007-06-18
  
  
  
• This solo is full of confidence, joy and love.
  
  2007-07-06
  
  
  
• It was awesome
  
  2008-05-01
  
  
  
• nice tune, interesting changes, nice DAvis' solo
  
  2008-07-24
  
  
  
• I'm listening to "Warming Up A Riff" right now, for the seventh time today! I keep returning to this solo year after year as my favorite by Parker. To me it is one of his most rewarding to listen to because he flows from one great idea to the next, over and over again throughout this solo.
  It is such a nice piece to give to a fellow musician or non-musician to listen to, to turn them on to Parker, because of his great playing and because the piano and and bass are loud enough in the mix to help one's ear hear the harmonic context of the notes he is choosing to play. Each musician's playing is so free and easy, and at the same time intense and exciting; and how about those drums!
  I had heard the story explained by another commentator in this forum that this was a test song for Parker's sax which had just been repaired; And today I just noticed that at the end (at approximately the 2 minute, 30 second mark, after Parker's last note), I think you can hear Parker commenting on his repaired horn saying, "that's alright," or "it's alright."
  
  2008-09-08
  
  
  
• this Savoy master take sticks in my brain ever since I caught that cheapo italian lp from the supermarket
  
  2008-10-26
  
  
  
• Bird wailing @ St. Nick's (Trac 11).
  Were it Xmas I would choose 'White Christmas' @ The Royal Roost :-D
  
  2009-01-27
  
  
  
• Raoul L'Hote
  He inspired me to vote this song
  Parker is the best at his horn
  Amen
  
  2009-03-09
  
  
  
• An obvious choice, but sometimes obvious is right.
  
  2009-11-23
  
  
  
• the greatest tune ever!
  
  2010-12-02
  
  
  
• Even more beautiful than the Ella Fitzgerald cut. So full of emotion. It sends shivers down my spine.
  
  2011-01-28
  
  
  
• its good
  
  2011-02-25
  
  
  
• Try to get the version out of the "Live At the Rockland Palace" session... it's killing.
  Regards, Patrick Manzecchi, drummer
  
  2012-01-05
  
  
  
• I love the rhythmic ambiguity of this tune. It plays around the beat in a way that is hard to pin down. One of so many Parker heads that are musical gems.
  
  2012-07-11
  
  
  
• If I start this tune going in my head it never stops as the first and last notes loop together *smile*.
  
  2012-07-24
  
  
  

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