Not everyone who admires Charlie Parker
will place him at the pinnacle of American popular music. But
probably most will agree that he was a great practitioner of the 20th
century art of jazz improvisation. It seems impossible to deny as well
that he was a natural musical genius — a person whose vast talent, like
that of Mozart in the European classical tradition, cannot be explained
any other way.
Stepping down from high democratic vistas, it remains one
important part of what still makes Charlie Parker such a remarkable
jazz musician that he was a virtuoso on the alto saxophone.
Not everyone who admires Charlie Parker
will place him at the pinnacle of American popular music. But
probably most will agree that he was a great practitioner of the 20th
century art of jazz improvisation. It seems impossible to deny as well
that he was a natural musical genius — a person whose vast talent, like
that of Mozart in the European classical tradition, cannot be explained
any other way.
Stepping down from high democratic vistas, it remains one
important part of what still makes Charlie Parker such a remarkable
jazz musician that he was a virtuoso on the alto saxophone.
