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
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.
clean notes
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.
music art men
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
guy comedian bops
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'
play bored alive
I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
music play born
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.
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.
beautiful people firsts
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
music art reality
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.