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Summary: If you don't have this book..don't call yourself a Bird fan!
Review: If I could rate this book the way I wish I could it would get a 100 on a scale from 1-5!!! This book contains many of Charlie Parkers improved solos. Every sax player in the world should have a copy of this material. Parker was one of the best soloists to ever walk the planet, and if you don't get this one...don't bother to play the horn anymore!!!
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Summary: Important bebop material.
Review: This is a very well done transcription of Charlie Parker's recording on Dial, Savoy, Verve. There are 60! songs including Parker's solo in this transcription such as KoKo, Confirmation, Ornithology, Parker's Mood, She Rote, Yardbird Suite, Scrapple from the apple, Billie's Bounce... And it has information on the records where it was transcribed from. Not like the one - 'Charlie Parker a Jazz Master' Hal-Leonard made.
The transcription is done very well;notes are took very precisely, in hand-writing, with chords changes on bars.'Not regularly written in 4 bars each row' is the only thing that I can pick up with. This book is a very important material for people who really want to konw what is going on when Parker was improvising. According to this, the book could be the most important one of all those written about Charlie Parker.
I'll give it 5 more *, if I can.
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