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North Sea Jazz | Bird Session 2005 | Joe Zawinul's tribute to Charlie Parker

NORTH SEA JAZZ | BIRD SESSION 2005 Joe Zawinul's tribute to Charlie Parker A video impression of an historic, all star jam session - in loving memory of Joe Zawinul, Toots Thielemans & Barry Harris. Produced by Dick Kuijs & Toon Roos. Recorded on 8 July 2005 at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Jan Steenzaal, Nederlands Congres Centrum in The Hague. with John Scofield - guitar Toots Thielemans - harmonica Ravi Coltrane - tenor saxophone Toon Roos - tenor & soprano saxophone Christian McBride - double bass Bill Stewart - drums Joe Zawinul - keyboards Barry Harris - grand piano On the late night of Friday 8 July 2005, a unique and historic jam session took place at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. The Bird Session featured an all star lineup of musicians, personally selected by keyboard legend Joe Zawinul and bebop master, pianist Barry Harris. It was a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the festival and of the fiftieth dying day of Charlie Parker. This is a video impression of the first part of the session, where the band played the song Perdido. For this occasion Joe Zawinul and Barry Harris invited two other North Sea Bird Award winners, harmonica legend Toots Thielemans and Dutch saxophonist Toon Roos. Also guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Bill Stewart were invited on stage. Although not on video, the jam session that night continued with a fast blues, and after the intermission a second lineup of Bird Award winners performed with vocalist Greetje Kauffeld, saxophonists Piet Noordijk and Toon Roos, pianist Barry Harris, bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer John Engels. Unfortunately Dutch television wasn’t there that night for a professional recording, yet filmmaker Dick Kuijs used two cameras and audio from the sound engineers and made an attractive video impression of the first half of the session. 2005 was the last year of the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. Since 2006 the festival is located in the AHOY in Rotterdam. Thanks to North Sea Jazz Festival, Michelle Kuypers, Jaap Ludeke & Joe Zawinul. Special thanks to Dick Kuijs, Bob Hagen & Jeroen Jansen for the images. Video produced by Dick Kuijs Produkties. Post production by Toon Roos with technical assistance of Harold Versluijs & Aart de Jong. Video release of the Bird Session on Toon Roos YouTube channel and Toon’s FB page is scheduled on Tuesday 21 June 2022.