Charlie Parker on Cheryl - May 8, 1947

Transcription Rémi Bolduc Charlie Parker Alto sax solo This one is such a great solo. 100% Parker. With some beautiful lines. So clear, melodic, rhythmic and original ! That was less than 4 months after Bird emerged from Camarillo at the end of January 1947. “In the interval before his nightclub opening, Charlie set about assembling the quintet which was to be his regular working group for the next few years. To the essential ingredient of Max Roach on drums, he added Miles Davis, bassist Tommy Potter and, on the May 1947 Savoy record session, Bud Powell. The playing is of a uniformly high standard in this session, which begat three interesting originals by Charlie, including the straight-ahead call-and-answer riff-blues Buzzy, Cheryl (a contrastingly asymmetrical blues tune and more chromatic than most of Parker’s) and the very unusual Chasin’ The Bird, the theme of which contains two simultaneous and interlocking melodies played contrapuntally by alto and trump