Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr., also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth29 August 1920
CityKansas City, KS
CountryUnited States of America
play trying band
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
bit
It was a bit of a switch-up, really,
faster improving results stronger works
It works on improving your neuromuscular system. You'll see results faster and you'll also get stronger in the process.
faster improving results stronger works
It works on improving your neuromuscular system, ... You'll see results faster and you'll also get stronger in the process.
music i-like-you mets
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
music play eight
I can play all I know in eight bars.
music art men
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
jazz instruments
You've got to learn your instrument.
looks rhythm look-at-me
I look at melody as rhythm.
forget
Learn the changes, then forget them.
music thinking play
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
music jazz-and-life boundaries
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
clean notes
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.