‘Ode To A High Flying Bird,’ the bird being Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist. In 1961, twenty-year-old Charles Robert Watts was working as a full-time graphic designer and a part-time drumme ...
A woman owns a beautiful old alto saxophone that belonged to her father and according to family legend was once owned by the legendary jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker. Her late father ...
thereby giving us mere mortals permission to solo over these changes without Pat Martino or Charlie Parker looming over our shoulders. Over the B section, Charlie incorporates minor-6th arpeggios ...