Ko-Ko

The output of brilliant miniatures – Jack the Bear, Ko-Ko, A Portrait of Bert Williams, Prelude to a Kiss, Concerto for Cootie – continued as he entered the 1940s with perhaps the greatest line-up he ever assembled, and in 1941 his first full-length Broadway show, Jump for Joy, introduced Just Squeeze Me and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

From 1944 on, partnered by Gillespie and, later, by a teenage Miles Davis, Parker created some of the most dynamic jazz in the music's history, with tunes such as Now's the Time, Ornithology, Billie's Bounce, Yardbird Suite and Ko-Ko often scribbled on scraps of paper on the way to sessions, or during warm-ups.

A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him 2011

The output of brilliant miniatures – Jack the Bear, Ko-Ko, A Portrait of Bert Williams, Prelude to a Kiss, Concerto for Cootie – continued as he entered the 1940s with perhaps the greatest line-up he ever assembled, and in 1941 his first full-length Broadway show, Jump for Joy, introduced Just Squeeze Me and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

By the time she and Ko-Ko deliver their bloodthirsty duet, "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast," they really seem like soul mates.

Taking Gilbert Heidi Waleson 2011

From 1944 on, partnered by Gillespie and, later, by a teenage Miles Davis, Parker created some of the most dynamic jazz in the music's history, with tunes such as Now's the Time, Ornithology, Billie's Bounce, Yardbird Suite and Ko-Ko often scribbled on scraps of paper on the way to sessions, or during warm-ups.

A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him 2011

From 1944 on, partnered by Gillespie and, later, by a teenage Miles Davis, Parker created some of the most dynamic jazz in the music's history, with tunes such as Now's the Time, Ornithology, Billie's Bounce, Yardbird Suite and Ko-Ko often scribbled on scraps of paper on the way to sessions, or during warm-ups.

A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him 2011

When you see Martyn Green and Sydney Granville as Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah, you're seeing two of the greatest of all G & S singers in the roles for which they were best known—up close and in Technicolor.

They Are the Very Model of Major Gilbert & Sullivan DVDs Terry Teachout 2011

Incidentallly, George Grossmith was knocking this out for Punch while starring as the tragic jester Jack Point in the opening season of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard", having just finished a very successful run as the original Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner in "The Mikado".

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The output of brilliant miniatures – Jack the Bear, Ko-Ko, A Portrait of Bert Williams, Prelude to a Kiss, Concerto for Cootie – continued as he entered the 1940s with perhaps the greatest line-up he ever assembled, and in 1941 his first full-length Broadway show, Jump for Joy, introduced Just Squeeze Me and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

As Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, obliged to woo and win the terrible Katisha if he is not to perish by boiling oil or molten lead, Neal Davies gives his courtship speech a Shakespearean gravity, and brings a heartfelt intensity to the absurdly pathetic "Tit-Willow."

Taking Gilbert Heidi Waleson 2011