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  1. Django Bates, Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra *, Jazzpar Version Of Delightful Precipice *. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 CD release of "Bird" on Discogs.

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  2. Beloved Bird by Django Bates. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

  3. Feb 5, 2011 · Django Bates claims that he heard Charlie Parker records on the day he was born. Fifty years later, Bates has formed Belovèd, giving life to his longstanding love for Parker's music on his trio's debut, Belovèd Bird.

  4. Pianist Django Bates, soon to be 50, enjoys rattling the cage of the UK jazz establishment – whether as a pivotal player in ’80s big band Loose Tubes, or performing with his own students at Copenhagen’s Jazz House. Under its uninhibited improvisation, Loose Tubes often evoked past jazz styles – with brief pastiche glimpses.

  5. Mar 27, 2010 · Django Bates is equally confident as his all-acoustic piano trio stretch and pull at music associated with saxophonist Charlie Parker – a childhood inspiration.

  6. Beloved Bird, by the multi-award winning British jazz musician Django Bates is a celebration of the music of Charlie Parker. On his first recording with a classic trio line-up, Bates delivers his own interpretations of music associated with Parker and pays tribute to Bird with one of his own compositions.

  7. The purists, as ever, may find Bates’ reimaginings too superficially quirky for their liking: yet Bird’s spirit is here, Bird the iconoclast who wanted to learn from Varèse, Bird the revolutionary who embraced Latin rhythms as well as bop’s sprung tempos, who nestled as happily against Mitch Miller’s oboe as he did Max Roach’s rhythms.