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Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. His parents are Charles and Addie Parker. His dad was an African American stage performer and his mom a native-American maid Chair-woman. Charlie was an only Child they lived in Kansas City, Kansas for the first seven years of his life and then he and his parents moved to Kansas City, Missouri. At the time Kansas City, Missouri was full of African American culture and music including Jazz the blues and Gospel.

Pacer first found his musical talent at music lessons at public schools where he played the Baritone in the school band. Until his father abandoned the family and his mother gifted him a saxophone to cheer him up. A year later Charlie Parker would quit school to pursue a musical career playing his Alto Sax.

Charlie began playing with local youth bands at clubs including Buster Professor Smith’s band in 1937 and pianist’s and Jay McCann’s band in 1938 Where he had the opportunity to tour Chicago and New York.

Eventually, Parker decided to move to New York and work from there as a professional musician and jam for pleasure. He may have ended up being a legendary jazz musician but at his humble begins he had to wash dishes to make enough money to survive but he was enjoying himself. It wasn’t until later in his life that Charlie Parker was able to become successful in music. Charlie Parker’s musical style was unheard of at the time no one played or composed music the way he did.

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He invented the jazz style bebop.

As groves music online states “Before Parker, the dominant models for alto saxophone tone quality were the lush and vibrato-laden sounds of Dickinson 2Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter. Parker’s bluesy and edgy timbre, with only selective use of vibrato, created a leaner sound that was effective for rapid melodic lines. This is how Parker’s new style started. He didn’t start creating this new style until he met Dizzy Gillespie when they were both members of the Earl Hines band. Under the direction of Dizzy Parker started to be recorded under the direction of Dizzy where they created the bebop style. Parker played his last performance in 1949 then died a week later. Charlie Parker Played a major role in the development of the jazz style in the creation of bebop. Jazz developed from slow rhythmic melodies to more upbeat quick pieces of music that pleased a wider range of people and made Charlie Parker a very well-known artist.

Charlie Parker is so well known that most modern-day people still know who he is and what he did even if they are into jazz are not everybody knows who Charlie Parker is. His musical style was almost unmatched by any other jazz musicians of his time making him one of the greats of jazz music. Dizzy Gillespie was born on October twenty-first nineteen seventeen in Cheraw Carolina. He was a Jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader that had a huge impact on jazz music and helped in the bebop movement. Dizzy was the youngest of nine musical children. Dizzy’s dad was a master bandleader and a bricklayer, he helps introduce Dizzy to the basics of several instruments. Dizzy began playing piano and took up trumpet and trombone at age twelve. At the age of fifteen, he had enough talent to earn a scholarship to North Carolina’s Laurinburg Institute. However even though Dizzy’s high school years, he was essentially self-taught.

Eventually, John Gillespie worked his way through various big bands building a reputation for himself as a talented free spirit earning him the nickname Dizzy. In the years that Dizzy was making his Dickinson 3name, he worked with very influential artists such as Charlie “Bird” Parker and Thelonious Monk. Dizzy Gillespie started his musical career in Philadelphia where he played in a band lead by Frankie Fairfax along with Charlie Shavers. According to Groves music online “the Band also included Charlie Shavers. Shaver’s knew many of the solos of Roy Eldridge. Dizzy’s hero and dizzy learned the solos by copying shavers.” (Dizzy Gillespie Groves music online). After a while, in Philadelphia, Dizzy moved to New York where he was trying to get better known as a jazz musician. He would play at nightclubs with various bands and eventually he joined Teddy hills big band mainly because he sounded a lot like their previous soloist Eldridge.

They toured France and Great Britain after he returned to New York he played with dozens of various bands eventually he landed another job with the highest paid African American Band the Cab Calloway’s band and developed an interest in the fusion of jazz and Cuban music. Eventually, Dizzy was dismissed from this band because of a heated argument with Calloway. However, while on tour with this group dizzy met Charlie Parker in Kansas City and they soon were having after-hours jam sessions and met up again in Thelonious Monk. After they broke up with that Charlie and dizzy still worked together multiple times in recordings and performances where they combined their talents to create the new jazz style called bebop.

Dizzy Gillespie musical style started off very similar to his idol Roy Eldridge, however, Eventually, Dizzy veered off from the traditional style and started to develop his own style. He began using a lighter vibrato and swung eighths creating his own mature jazz style. Dizzy also had a unique way of playing he played with the correct trumpet embouchure and puffed out his cheeks. He did this for so long that he eventually stretched them out so when he plays his cheeks expanded huge kind of like a bullfrog. I feel like this did affect Dizzy’s tone and style it gave

Dickinson 4him a tone that no other trumpet players have Dizzy has a tone and a charismatic that no other player has. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker have very many Similarities in their musical style and career. However, they also had their differences from each other. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are both known for their part in creating the jazz style bebop. In bebop, the groove switched from a heavy bass drum to higher hat and ride cymbal that created a lighter feel. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie both were known as the creators of this style they were as Charlie Parker states in an article he was “bored with the stereotyped chord changes that were being used” (UDiscover Music What is Bebop? Deconstructing jazz music’s most influential development.).

These two artists played in a way that eventually leads to the same style even before had met. Charlie Parker a great saxophonist started by playing quick melodic melodies that he improvised in various bands that he performed with. Dizzy kind of did the same thing he started off copying his idle and trying to solo just like him. However, once he got good at that he started to explore a style of his own. He was starting to change up the way he did things by playing quicker and with a different swing feel.

When these two first met while playing in the same band they quickly learned that they like each other’s style and would have jam sessions after hours learning from each other. When these two separated and went their own ways, they continued to develop on this new style of jazz music and would compose tunes to fit more into this style. They occasionally crossed paths and would perform together and record various albums and people started to like what they were doing and enjoying their music and they became very popular. Dizzy went on to lead his own band and compose music and Parker continued to perform and wrote various pieces of bebop music.

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