Re- GRGR(5) -- on Parker an

[Paul Mackin]

David on Will:


 He "steals back" jazz by taking a dopey pop song and making it into
>sophisticated art on his own terms.

True in general but not so true about Cherokee, because it had already 
come a long way from being a dopey pop song; it was a standard 
straight-ahead swing instrumental by that time, a vehicle for all sorts 
of improvisation.

I will have to agree with David. The big swing bands were commercial
but seldom dopey. Charlie Barnet's "Cherokee" (without the lyrics of course
everybody understands, don't they?) is most highly regarded.

				Paul