The ink never drys on Charlie Parker books. Decades after his passing, the vastness of his contribution to modern music is still being examined, reexamined, contemplated, and desiminated. His music was the "Big Bang" of modern jazz and continues to expand in all directions without limit. To truly understand the theory of "general creativity", it helps to start from the quantum level; one and two bar phrases.

This book was created to catalog the melodic pattern material performed by Charlie Pa...