Letter A is Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Anthropology’, a burn-out head over the changes to George Gershwin’s ‘I got rhythm’.

Billie’s Bounce is a fantastic blues head composed by Charlie Parker in 1945.  If you want to take your blues language to the next level, then get stuck in!

We’re on our third Charlie Parker tune for this course and it’s probably the hardest one we’re going to do, ‘Confirmation.’

Donna Lee is credited to Charlie Parker, (although Miles Davis claimed it in his autobiography as one of his own, which, may or may not be true).  Donna Lee, like most Bebop heads is built over the chord changes to a popular standard of the day, this time (Back Home) in Indiana.

So onto letter ‘E’ and in this lesson we are looking at another Bebop head over Rhythm Changes – Sonny Stitt’s ‘Eternal Triangle’.

Whilst it’s not strictly a ‘Bebop’ tune, Four, (possibly composed by Miles Davis in 1954, although authorship is disputed) is still a challenge and contains some great jazz language.

Groovin’ High is a 1945 composition by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

The song is a complex musical arrangement based on the chord structure of the 1920 standard originally recorded by Paul Whiteman, “Whispering”

Scrapple from the Apple is another jazz contrafact, composed by Charlie Parker in 1947.  It is based over the ‘A’ section chords of the jazz standard, ‘Honeysuckle Rose’. 

It’s the end of the A to Z of Bebop course and you need to send me a recording of you playing it so that I can put it at the end of the course.