The Other Side Of The Definitive

The Definitive CD continues with the seventh track, Ornithology, where Charlie Parker’s invention of the two-chorus solo is executed with a precise swiftness. Charlie recorded the eighth track, Yardbird Suite, the eleventh track, Embraceable You, the twelfth track, Scrapple From The Apple and the fifteenth track, Star Eyes with Miles Davis. Hearing Billie Holliday warble Lover Man was quite something but to hear Charlie Parker play it the ninth track years later on the alto sax was quite another.
It was also symbolic that both artists suffered from the same habitual affliction that plagued both their musical careers.

Relaxin At Camarillo the tenth track was recorded after Charlie’s release from Camarillo State Hospital in nineteen forty-seven. The piece has an abstract quality and is light years ahead of its time. Parker’s Mood the thirteenth track
is Charlie playing the blues with a gutsy interpretation using the alto sax as his voice. Just Friends the fourteenth track, he uses a string arrangement that gives the piece the sounds of a modern movie set in the year nineteen forty-nine. Confirmation the sixteenth and final track on The Definitive CD was recorded two years before his death in nineteen fifty-five.

It was said that Charlie was never satisfied with the way his music sounded and invented ways to make it sound more creative. Fortunately for the listeners, it worked out well. His love of European classical pieces of the twentieth century and his willingness to study them added to the quality of his musical ability. It had seemed that no matter how high he musically soared the swiftness of the Achilles arrow brought him crashing down.

The author has always enjoyed listening to a variety of music and saw a film about Charlie Parker.

Written by: Caroll A Hill

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