Alec Nevala-Lee

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Charlie Parker

If you play something that seems to be wrong, play it again, then play the same thing a third time. Then they’ll think that you meant it.

—Attributed to Charlie Parker by Miles Davis

Written by nevalalee

February 12, 2016 at 7:30 am

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I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That’s when I was born.

—Charlie Parker

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October 16, 2012 at 7:30 am

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