[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Parker

[Nancy Giffin]

From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>
>   ... It was at a party that his genius first dawned on me (and genius
>   is certainly le mot juste here) - it was very late, I had drunk a little too
>   much, after an evening of nonstop OKOM on the turntable somebody
>   put on a Parker LP containing a tune I knew but cannot now remember
>   - listening to it carefully, quite alone in my alcoholic half-world, the
>   amazing things which he did with the changes simply blew me away...


Wow. 

I want what HE's having!

;-)