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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 2

There's definitely stories and stories and stories that can be told in the musical idiom, you know. ---Charlie Parker Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 2 *NOTE: This etude is a short Bebop improvisational study of the twelve-bar blues based on materials presented in “Charlie Parker: The Analytical Study of Twenty-Two Performance Versions of Now's The Time”. The etude’s range and pitch register are optimized for alto saxophone.

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Albert Lea, Minnesota

Albert Lea, Minnesota | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Albert Lea was named after Albert Miller Lea, a topographer with the United States Regiment of Dragoons who surveyed the area back in 1835. The city is situated in the southeastern part of Minnesota and is the county seat of Freeborn County. Albert Lea, Minnesota | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang

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