Charlie Parker
Alto Sax Solo on
Billie's Bounce

About

Charlie Parker's alto saxophone solo is the first of two improvisations on this recording of one of the most celebrated blues heads in the bebop canon. Taking four choruses of the 12-bar blues in F at 161 BPM, Parker delivers a solo of melodic brilliance and rhythmic sophistication that has become one of the most transcribed and analyzed improvisations in jazz history. His four-chorus statement unfolds with the effortless invention and logical development that made his blues playing definitive for generations of jazz musicians.

Charlie Parker was 24 to 25 years old at the time.