Charlie Parker
Tenor Sax Solo on
Milestones

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In the book Visions of Jazz: The First Century, Gary Giddins says, Milestones’ was a line with so many harmonic bottlenecks that Parker insisted he’d play just the bridge because the tune was too hard for a country boy like him.
Charlie Parker was 26 to 27 years old at the time.

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