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    Charlie Parker

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    Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #art

    Don't be afraid, just play the music. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #music

    If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #modeling #life

    I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

    If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #horn #live #out #won #you

    You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #finally #forget #get #got #instrument

    They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #boundary #line #man #music #teach

    Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. ↗


    — Charlie Parker

    #saxophone #you






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    Did you know about Charlie Parker?

    Parker joined a group of young musicians and played in after-hours clubs in Harlem such as Clark Monroe's Uptown House and Minton's Playhouse. On November 30 1949 Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record an album of ballads with a mixed group of jazz and chamber orchestra musicians. The tracks recorded during this session include "Ko-Ko" "Billie's Bounce" and "Now's the Time".

    Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than an entertainer. "
    Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos virtuosic technique and improvisation. Parker introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords new variants of altered chords and chord substitutions.

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