"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art."
- Charlie Parker (via chiloconcarne)
"Bird and Bud play the changes, of course. But it’s how they don’t play the changes that makes them High Bebop. Despite the tempo, their singing melodies honor rhythm, direction, and context ahead of harmony."
- Key pull quote from part 2 of Ethan Iverson’s brilliant essays on Bud Powell & bebop on his blog Do The Math. He refers to High Bebop as being a class that may only have Charlie Parker (Bird) & Bud Powell - they are players that have the ”maximum amount of folklore and the greatest level of discontinuity.” Perfectly stated. (via dancingarchitect)
(Source: dothemath.typepad.com)
