This week, I've been celebrating Charlie Parker's upcoming centenary on August 29 by posting what I believe are the alto saxophonist's five major contributions to jazz and the culture at large. In Part 1, I posted about Parker's invention, with Dizzy Gillespie, of bebop in 1945. In Part 2, I posted on Parker's popularization of high-speed improvisation …
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