February 2012
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WatchAhh-ha! History the way it really happened!
No Bop Roots In Jazz: Parker. Interesting 1949...
by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson — 9/9/1949
“Bop is no love-child of jazz,” says Charlie Parker. The creator of bop, in a series of interviews that took more than two weeks, told us he felt that “bop is something entirely separate and apart” from the older tradition; that it drew little from jazz, has no roots in it. The chubby little alto man, who has made himself an international music name...
