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(Canceled) Dave Brubeck
Charlie Parker
Centennial Celebrations

Wed / Aug 26, 2020 - 8:00PM

The Bowl celebrates the 100th birthday of two treasured legends in jazz history.

Canceled

Program

    • The Brubeck Centennial Celebration with
    • The Brubeck Brothers Quartet
      David Benoit • Joey DeFrancesco • Bobby Militello • Lizz Wright
    • Charlie Parker Centennial Celebration Bird Lives @ 100 with
    • John Beasley + Magnus Lindgren
      Featuring:
      MONK’estra big band and strings
      Tia Fuller • Donald Harrison • Charles McPherson • Chris Potter

About this Performance

This event has been canceled. In response to the latest guidance of public health officials and in an effort to protect our artists, audiences, staff, and community from the spread of COVID-19, we are canceling the 2020 season at the Hollywood Bowl. This includes LA Phil-presented concerts scheduled from June 6 through September 26.

Ticketholders to canceled events can:

  • Donate their tickets and receive a tax deduction for the total ticket value. Your generosity will directly support the musicians, teachers, students, and staff of our orchestra, ensuring that our community is alive with music, today and always.
  • Use the credit for a future LA Phil-produced concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, or The Ford
  • Request a refund

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Dave Brubeck and Charlie Parker are two treasured legends in the history of jazz. On this unforgettable night, the Bowl pays tribute to them both with a pair of centennial celebrations. 

California native Dave Brubeck and his Quartet pioneered West Coast jazz with a style that was loose and open, adventurous but calm, and held together by Brubeck’s precise piano playing. Over his six-decade career, Brubeck’s artistry and innovation won him nearly every award a musician can win – including Kennedy Center Honors, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy®, and the National Medal of the Arts – but by incorporating rhythms he encountered abroad and making his music more complex, he also made jazz more accessible to wide audience, with his seminal 1959 album Time Out becoming the first jazz album to sell a million copies. 

While the otherworldly complexity, inventiveness, and speed of Charlie Parker’s playing had fundamentally changed the way generations of jazz players approached the saxophone, he always wanted to record an album with an orchestra.

Alongside John Beasley’s four-time-Grammy-nominated big band MONK’estra, as well as a string section, John Beasley and Magnus Lindgren present freshly rearranged takes on Parker’s classics – proving the man they called Bird is still changing how we think about jazz.

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