The Perfect Balance of Blues and Bop, Charlie Parker Blues for Alice Jazz Solo Transcription

Click here to download a FREE PDF of this transcription: This is one of Birds many great Blues heads, and his soloing on this track is one of the best examples of how Parker was able to flow effortlessly between a laidback, soulful Kansas City Blues style and the more intricate and virtuosic Bebop style he pioneered. A few thoughts Id like to share about this transcription: When Bird ends phrases going from his B to C in the staff, I suspect that hes using the side C fingering to give those Cs a little different color. In measure 46, its unclear to me if thats truly an eighth note on the of beat 2 or if Birds intention was to do a double or tripletongue figure, but the effect got lost (maybe due to tempo, recording technology). Its very difficult to cram three notes in there, but I wouldnt put it past him. I included the Head Out in my transcription for two reasons. 1) I wanted to see if the articulations Bird u