Cherokee

[Henry Musikar]

There are many recordings of Koko. Bird played it all the time.

On 24 Apr 97 at 16:24, Berthiaume & Mace <denpatt at sjm.infi.net> 
wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > --
> > Alan Westrope     PGP public key:  http://www.crl.com/~awestrop
> > <awestrop at crl.com>
> > <awestrop at nyx.net>
> > PGP 0xB8359639:   D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43   7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23
> 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).
> 


AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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