One of his songs is based on the chords from both Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" and the bridge from Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm.
One of his songs is based on the chords from both Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" and the bridge from Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm." In addition to "Scrapple from the Apple," his recording "Ko-Ko" is considered one of the earliest examples of a style of jazz he helped develop. One of his signature songs is based on Morgan Lewis's "How High the Moon," and his solo from his recording of another musician's song "Night in Tunisia" was released on its own as "The Famous Alto Break." An early pioneer of bebop, for 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist and frequent collaborator with Dizzy Gillespie who wrote "Ornithology" and was nicknamed "Yardbird."
One of his songs is based on the chords from both Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" and the bridge from Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm.
Charlie Parker