Cherokee

[Berthiaume & Mace]

Alan Westrope wrote:
> 
> 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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I picked up Bird's recording of "Ko-Ko" in 1960 on Savoy records (on an
extended--45 size--play).  It's VOL 2 of CHARLIE PARKER (XP-8001).