How To Use Charlie Parker In A Sentence
- His tone tended to be hard and harsh and lacked the varied coloration of the bop innovator Charlie Parker.
- During this time he has played bebop with Charlie Parker, free jazz with Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre, and fusion with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius.
- Charlie Parker expanded the vocabulary of jazz.
- Louis Armstrong was vocal about his dislike of the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
- Similar in ambition is "Constellation," a cut that initially appeared on the horribly named Bird Up Charlie Parker tribute album that was released 2003.
- Charlie Parker may have pioneered bebop jazz, but Miles Davis helped him to establish it.
- Splicing the huge sound and harmonic subtlety of swing-era tenorist Coleman Hawkins to Lester Young's lyrical looseness and Charlie Parker's momentum, Rollins offered a new agenda for the tenor saxophone. Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus
- Woods, a self confessed ‘old bebopper’, was deeply in thrall to the work of Charlie Parker, but the ERM's remit included nods to the emergent avant garde.
- I've heard guys in New York who sound just like Charlie Parker, but it's like a scratchy record of Parker.
- Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Charlie Parker: all had to struggle against handicaps to become successful artists.
