Is Bird Dead? (Part Two)

Today I was digging for some info on ’stamp albums’ and came across the following paragraph:

Is Bird Dead? (Part Two) In the first part of this article, I described my surprise at how seldom I discern the influence of Charlie Parker in the work of the younger generation of jazz musicians. I called attention to the changes in how phrases are shaped by improvisers today, as well as to the different techniques employed in incorporating chromatic color tones into their melodic lines. In these, and other improvisational elements, we can hear a dramatic loosening of the almost mesmerizing

I decided to blog this result under ‘Building and Architecture’. Let me know what you think of this…