Week 4 Assignment - Charlie Parker

Please copy and paste these questions onto a Word document, and email them to me (rachaelandthemullets@hotmail.com) no later than FRIDAY


Charlie Parker Questions
(follow the Charlie Parker weblinks to help you answer these questions, and watch the YouTube clips. You may have to do some extra research to find the answer to a couple of these questions)

1. Describe bebop

2. What makes Charlie Parker’s playing different from other saxophone players? (Watch the YouTube clips and compare his playing to another saxophone player that you can find on YouTube)

3. What are jazz “changes”, as referred to on the website article about Charlie Parker?

Website: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htm

(Note: You will have to do some extra researching to find the answer to this one.)

5.Name at least five different musicians Parker played music with, and mention their instrument: (Hint: one of the musicians we have studied in the unit played with Parker)

6.Name some tunes that Charlie Parker wrote.