Cherokee

[Alan Westrope]

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Dkipen at aol.com wrote:
>Has anybody ever actually heard Charlie Parker doing Cherokee? Maybe he never
>did, in which case somebody please tell me so I can save myself the trouble
>of picking up every cut-rate Bird CD I see in the discount bins to read the
>track list.

He recorded it as "KoKo" -- the usual bebop practice of taking a standard
tune, using its chord progressions but writing a new, angular melody, and
playing it at machine gun demisemiquaver tempo.

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