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Originally Posted by Musician
yeah i dont agree with you that Charlie Parker is not melodius. Have you heard the yardbird suite. Charlie Parker bases all of his written compositions on popular melodies by the way......they are inverted and the complexity of the music structure astounds me. I love to play all of his music. It has so much life and energy.
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I'm quite familiar with Parker's music, thank you. I've been listening to it since the 1960's, and own several of his recordings on both vinyl and CD.
I never said Parker was not melodious. But it's a hard fact that Bebop is not one of the more melodious forms of jazz.
I stated that guys like Bud Freeman were MORE melodious, which anybody with a respectable knowledge of jazz is well aware of.
As I essentially stated previously, Parker was a technical genius, but there are a significant number of jazz saxaphonists who could create music that was clearly more melodic than Parker's.
His greatness is undoubted, but I don't stand in blind awe of him, like so many others.