cherokee and bebop

[Terence Keegan]

i just subscribed to this list and found Michael Arnowitt's analysis of the
ch"cherokee" melody to illuminate a sweet detai 
i'm trying to pay close attention to Pynchon's music and musical references.
I wonder if the larger correspondence between the path of the rocket in GR
and the harmonic progression of a typical piece of tonal music (beginning and
ending on a tonic "I", reaching a dominant apex "V") has already been
discussed. if so sorry for the repeat.
as i understand it "cherokee" was the first song Charlie Parker realised his
bebop sound over. that passage about Dan Wall's Chili House in GR is all
factual. honestly i've never had any primary source material on it but
there's a nice quotation from Parker on it in the first pages of Wesley
Brown's novel Tragic Magic. I don't understand the mechanics of bebop
improvisation, though.
some impulse-coincidences: Charlie "Bird" Parker linked to the bird that dies
as things equal out to tonic in "Entropy?" Also, the song "Hothouse" was
often included in bebop repetoires. Much of "Entropy" is set in a hothouse.
Perhaps overreading on my part, but it doesn't take long for that character
paranoia of everything being linked to bite you as well.
						           -Terence