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Bebop Cookbook | Academic Studies of Charlie Parker’s Music

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Jazz music, during its comparatively brief history of one hundred years, has continuously manifested its unparalleled energy by progressively reinventing itself and generating new variants that directly or indirectly reflect the development of music in general; the advancement of music technology, and the social interactions, conflicts, and inevitable transformations. Bebop, in particular, exhibits a substantial impact that antagonizes its community internally and consequently challenges the identity and value of the subordinate social groups and their collective assembly.....

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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker and Substance Abuse

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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker and Substance Abuse

Jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was not only the representative figure in the Bebop movement in terms of his musical exploration, but also in his continuous struggle with substance abuse. Evidently, the problem of substance abuse was pervasive during that period within the jazz community, as Burton W. Peretti elucidated that "while World War I, Prohibition, and the first flush of the adolescent subculture had prompted alcoholism among some early white jazz musicians, a deeper disappointment fueled the bebop turn to drugs......

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Dialogue | Incorporating Dissonance in Jazz Improvisation

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Dialogue | Incorporating Dissonance in Jazz Improvisation

There are of course countless ways to introduce dissonance into jazz improvisation. As mentioned in the forum post, we might try to use symmetrical scales to spice up our Bebop line, such as integrating the "Slonimsky motive" derived from the diminished scale. In addition to scalar treatments, symmetrical scales such as the octatonic scale, aka the diminished scale, also offer some flavorsome opportunities to pepper up our Bebop lines with sequential patterns.

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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker’s Western Classical Music Quotations & Decorated Enclosure in Bebop Improvisation

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I love to quote. But You probably notice that already. You, clever you. For me, quoting tawdry or cutesy lines from novels, poems, movies, songs, commercials, disclaimers, and even product nutrition panels, is less an attempt to reaffirm my steps or missteps. It is more a way to clutch something, to remember something, to get a whiff of something from the hectic stream of everyday-life. piece by piece. poco a poco.....

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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker and Western Classical Music & Enclosure in Bebop Improvisation

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Bird soon immersed himself in works by composers active in the first half of the twentieth-century. In addition to Igor Stravinsky, composers of Western classical music that Parker venerated included Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Sergey Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schönberg, and Dmitri Shostakovitch. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s works came to be on Parker’s listening menu around 1945...

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Bebop Cookbook | When Charlie Parker Met Stravinsky & Bird’s “Slonimsky” Motive

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When Charlie Parker met Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky’s music... It was Ziggy Kelly "hipped" Bird to Stravinsky’s The Firebird suite back in 1942, so they said in a Down Beat article "No Bop Roots in Jazz". In a 1953 interview with Nat Hentoff for Down Beat magazine, Parker professed his love for Stravinsky’s music, uttering that “I first began listening seven or eight years ago. First I heard Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. In the vernacular of the streets, I flipped"....

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