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http://www.kershmedia.co.uk Gareth Lockrane playing at the Jazz Academy Summer School, August 2013. Filmed on my iPhone.Featuring Will Bartlett on piano, Rickie Lambert on bass, AJ on drums, Dominic Ashworth on guitar. Jazz Academy is run by Gabriel Garrick and takes place at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Cobham Surrey.The tune is Crazeology. Composed by Benny Harris, the song was famously recorded by Charlie Parker in December 1947. Why the title? Well in 1946, after strolling naked through his L.A. hotel lobby, then igniting a fire while smoking in bed, Charlie Parker was committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital for six months. In 1954, following two suicide attempts, he was evaluated at New York's Bellevue Hospital as an "evasive personality with manifestations of primitive and sexual fantasies associated with hostility and gross evidence of paranoid thinking." Who better, then, to express the theme of "Crazeology"?