It all started with Charlie Parker's walk-on solo during Neal Hefti's recording of Repetition at the tail end of 1947, just hours before the start of the second American Federation of Musicians' recording ban. Producer Norman Granz loved Parker's impromptu bop solo backed by Hefti's anxious strings. So in November 1949, Granz brought Parker into the stu…
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