Glad you enjoyed those links, mary_jo.
pryso made a good observation re players quoting other tunes in their solos:
**** In fact it happens so often it can become a parlor game to identify all the other music references a soloist may include in their turn. ****
As with most things it depends on the skill with which it is done. I wish I could claim to have said this: in a recent discussion on the subject a musician acquaintance said “When you are trying to channel John Coltrane, you don’t want to hear Woody Woodpecker”. To which another musician said: “Yeah, but not everyone is good at telling jokes”.
Charlie Parker was one of the most prolific at quoting other tunes. Surely due in part to the fact that he listened to and studied a wide variety of musical styles and was a huge fan of Classical composers, Igor Stravinsky in particular and whom he often quoted in his solos.. Here is as great an example of just how deeply into the details of a jazz giant’s playing some insane jazz-heads can get 😎:
On the subject of Charlie Parker’s quotations of other tunes in his solos (and, yes, he too quotes “Woody Woodpecker” in example #006):
http://www.chasinthebird.com/quotes_e.html
pryso made a good observation re players quoting other tunes in their solos:
**** In fact it happens so often it can become a parlor game to identify all the other music references a soloist may include in their turn. ****
As with most things it depends on the skill with which it is done. I wish I could claim to have said this: in a recent discussion on the subject a musician acquaintance said “When you are trying to channel John Coltrane, you don’t want to hear Woody Woodpecker”. To which another musician said: “Yeah, but not everyone is good at telling jokes”.
Charlie Parker was one of the most prolific at quoting other tunes. Surely due in part to the fact that he listened to and studied a wide variety of musical styles and was a huge fan of Classical composers, Igor Stravinsky in particular and whom he often quoted in his solos.. Here is as great an example of just how deeply into the details of a jazz giant’s playing some insane jazz-heads can get 😎:
On the subject of Charlie Parker’s quotations of other tunes in his solos (and, yes, he too quotes “Woody Woodpecker” in example #006):
http://www.chasinthebird.com/quotes_e.html