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From: "Barry B. Bean"
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 96 08:47:43 -0500
Subject: RE: Wim & Jazz Harmonica. POINT 1.

On Thu, 05 Sep 96 23:47:15 GMT, dijk~orldaccess.nl wrote:

>>Even Charlie Parker's ideas consist of combinations that lie easily >under the
>fingers of his alto sax.
>>One of the great things about Charlie Parker is the fact that he >composed
>themes that sound the same as his improvisations without >losing the character
>of being a theme.
>
>So, his tunes are easy to get under your fingers when you are an alto sax
>player? I will check this out with some fine saxophone players I studied with
>and I know they did need a couple of years to be able to play the Parker solos.

The point isn't that any dork with an alto can play a bird solo, but
he uses a huge number of "saxophonisms." As an illustration, Consider
the Charlie Parker Omnibook, a collection of transcribed Parker
solos. The book is available in a Bb transposed version for
tenor/soprano players, so that you might play along with the
recordings, but most Bb players opt for the Eb (Parker played the Eb
alto) book. Why? Because once transposed, the solos lose many of
their "saxophonisms" and become far more difficult to play and lose
some of their appropriateness.

BBB

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