Charlie Parker died 50 years ago today.
Sheer speed coupled with mastery of melody; throw in inventiveness with harmony and this meant that Bird and bebop caused a revolution in jazz still heard today.
My own personal feelings on hearing Parker's music was amazement that he could say so much in such a short amount of time and improvise so fluidly on standard tunes.
Powerful, lyrical and just simply great toe-tapping, swaying and swinging music.
Ooh...look at me, I'm gushing!
1 comment:
Bird rules.
Good blog!
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