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Bebop Cookbook | The Annotated Bibliography of Analytical Studies of Charlie Parker’s Music

This annotated bibliography, limited to works written in English, is intended to serve as a partial index in the field of analytical studies of jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker’s improvisation technique, with additional emphasis on the identification of transcriptions of Parker’s improvisations. Ninety-eight entries are categorized into six classifications. The first classification, titled as “Books,” contains twenty entries, collections of analytical monographs, publications of transcriptions of Parker’s improvisations, and books...

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Konza Prairie | Kansas Flint Hills

After attacking my delicious red pepper & spinach quiche like a hungry polar bear just waking up from long winter hibernation in the trendy Bluestem Bistro in Aggieville, located near Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, I dragged my still-unsatisfied stomach alone and slowly drove toward the Konza Prairie few miles outside of the city. With a cup of iced Galão, charming scenery sunbathed in gorgeous March sunlight, and Bob...

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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker’s Nickname & Bebop Lick

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Since we will be casually chatting about Charlie Parker’s nickname, I can’t help but think that this is a perfect cunning opportunity to admit, once and for all, that I am one of those “man without a nickname” (with mysterious organ music distantly sounded) kind of guys. For some reasons, nicknames stay far-far-away from me like cute squirrels hastily running away from big-bad falcons. I am of course not a...

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Bebop Cookbook | Formulaic Improvisation & Charlie Parker’s Ornithology Motives

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Whenever the term formulaic improvisation is mentioned with Bebop, I habitually try to close my eyes and visualize myself standing in front of the LEGO Imagination Centre in the Mall of America, suddenly an excited six-year-old again, overwhelmed by the limitlessness of what these tiny LEGO building blocks can construct. A LEGO Tyrannosaurus, a LEGO pancake, or even a LEGO duplication of Coleman Hawkins stature in the downtown Saint Joseph,...

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Bebop Cookbook

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Formulaic Improvisation & Charlie Parker’s Ornithology Motives Whenever the term formulaic improvisation is mentioned with Bebop, I habitually try to close my eyes and visualize myself standing in front of the LEGO Imagination Centre in the Mall of America, suddenly an excited six-year-old again, overwhelmed by the limitlessness of what these tiny LEGO building blocks can construct.........(READ MORE) Charlie Parker’s Nickname & Bebop Licks Since we will be casually chatting...

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Charlie Parker Memorial Park at AJM

Charlie Parker Memorial Park | 2003 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The Charlie Parker Memorial Park was established in 1999 to pay the homage to the legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. The memorial park, which features a seventeenth foot sculpture by Robert Graham, is located near American Jazz Museum in Kansas City.

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