Charlie parker biography review

Kansas City's alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker () grew up in Jay McShann's band, at first influenced by the style of Lester Young. In he joined Earl Hines and played with Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, and in the trio formed the nucleus of Billy Eckstine's new band. In , besides recording the milestone performances with Gillespie, he formed hiw own group and proceeded to develop a new tonal vocabulary via Ko Ko (november ), a reworking of Ray Noble's Cherokee, and his classic compositions Billie's Bounce, Anthropology/ Thriving on a RiffMeandering and Now's the Time, all five recorded in november with Miles Davis, Gillespie, and Roach.

Parker extended both the melodic and the rhythmic range of jazz music in a systematic way.

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His solos seemed to have no rule, occasionally sounding arbitrary in the context of the group's playing. Thus each solo appeared to be unique in nature, not the repetition of a distinctive pattern. The polyrhythmic essence of his playing w