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Charlie Parker Quote:

"I remember one night I was jamming in a chili house on Seventh Avenue between 139th and 140th. It was December 1939. Now I`d been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used all the time, at the time, and I kept thinking there`s bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn`t play it.
Well, that night I was working over `Cherokee` and as I did I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes, I could play the thing I`d been hearing. I came alive."



 
Gil Coggins
  • Gil Coggins at the C Note (March 30, 2002) - Part 1
 
  • Gil Coggins at the C Note (May 4, 2003) - Part 1
 
  Chris Anderson  
                  Lush Life (from CD Solo Ballads

 

 
 



 
Charlie Parker tunes:
    Blues:
              Perhaps   (C)                      Score

Mp3 Player

              Relaxing at Camarillo   (C)  Score

Mp3 Player

 
              Passport (2)   (C)                Score

Mp3 Player

              Cheryl    (C)                         Score

Mp3 Player

 

 
              Laird Baird   (Bb)                 Score

Mp3 Player

              Bloomdido   (Bb)                  Score

Mp3 Player

 
              Barbados   (F)                     Score

Mp3 Player

              Au Privave   (F)                    Score

Mp3 Player


              Chi Chi   (Ab)                       Score

Mp3 Player

   


     Originals:
                Yardbird Suite                     Score

Mp3 Player

     
 

   
      Rhythm Changes:
                Anthropology                      Score

Mp3 Player

                Steeplechase                      Score

Mp3 Player

                Kim (No.2)                           Score

Mp3 Player

 
 
Miles Davis (bebop tunes)
 
              Half Nelson (Out of Nowhere) (C)  
 
 
 
Contrafacts
 
Lover (Diggin' Diz)
Cherokee (Koko)
Rosetta (Yardbird Suite; Dewey Square with Lady Be Good bridge)
Lover, Come Back (Bean and the Boys To Me or Quicksilver)
  It Could Happen To You (Fried Bananas)
  Indiana (Donna Lee)
  Embraceable You (Quasimodo; Meandering)
All The Things You Are (Prince Albert)
 

Whispering (Groovin' High)

  What Is This Thing Called Love (Hot House)
  Out Of Nowhere (Casbah; Nostalgia)
  Lady Be Good (Dewey Square) Eb
  How Hight The Moon (Ornithology)
  All God's Children Got Rhythm (Reets and I; Little Willie Leaps)
  Just the Way You Look Tonight (Klaunstance)
 

Honeysuckle Rose (Scrapple From The Apple, Marmaduke; Ah-Leu-Cha)

Fine And Dandy (Keen and Peachy)
  Lady Bird (Half Nelson)
  Beyond The Blue Horizon (She Rote)
  I Found Million Dollar Baby In A Five and Ten Cent Store - 1931 (Leap Frog)
  When I Grow Too Old To Dream (Charlie's Wig)
Topsy (Basie band (The Bird)
Don't Take Your Love From Me (Cardboard)
Perdido (Wahoo; Klactoveesedstene with Lady Be Good bridge)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more contrafacts, see here. There is an interesting thread here
 

COMPENDIUM OF PHRASES
 
G Major  
Bird 1 

Mp3 Player

Bird 2 

Mp3 Player

Bird 3 

Mp3 Player

Bird 4 

Mp3 Player

Bird 5 

Mp3 Player

Bird 6 

Mp3 Player

Bird 7 

Mp3 Player

 
Barry 1 

Mp3 Player

Barry 2  

Mp3 Player

Barry 3  

Mp3 Player

Barry 4  

Mp3 Player

Barry 5  

Mp3 Player

Barry 6  

Mp3 Player

Barry 7  

Mp3 Player

Barry 8  

Mp3 Player

Barry 9  

Mp3 Player

Barry 10 

Mp3 Player

Barry 11 

Mp3 Player

Barry 12 

Mp3 Player

  Barry 13 

Mp3 Player

Barry 14

Mp3 Player

Barry 15 

Mp3 Player

 
   
F minor 7  
Bird 8  

Mp3 Player

Bird 9  

Mp3 Player

Bird 10  

Mp3 Player

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Transcription from Barry Harris's Improvisation Workshop (July 31, 2018):

"Improv. Phrases 01"
by Sebestner


Transcription from Barry Harris's Improvisation Workshop (August 21, 2018):

Improv.+Phrases"
by Sebestner
   
   
   
   
Benny G vidoes
Tips for moving beyond Academic Bebop  
Essential Elements of Bebop: Displacement ft. a killing Bird lick