Barbados (composition)

"Barbados" is a jazz tune composed by Charlie Parker. It is a twelve-bar blues set to a mambo rhythm.^[1] Parker first recorded it on 29 August, 1948, with Miles Davis (trumpet), John Lewis (piano), Curly Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums).^[2]

Notes

↑ Stearns, Marshall Winslow (1970). The Story of Jazz. Oxford University Press US. p. 250. ISBN 0-19-501269-0.
↑ Koch, Lawrence O. (1988). Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 133. ISBN 0-87972-260-6.

Charlie Parker

Discography

Live recordings	Jazz at the Philharmonic Bird on 52nd St. Jazz at Massey Hall

Box sets	Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Complete Charlie Parker on Dial Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions

Compositions	"Ah-Leu-Cha" "Anthropology" "Au Privave" "Big Foot" aka "Driftin' on a Reed" "Barbados" "Billie's Bounce" "Bird Gets the Worm" "Bloomdido" "Blues for Alice" "Cheryl" "Confirmation" "Constellation " "Ko-Ko" "Moose the Mooche" "Ornithology" "Scrapple from the Apple" "Swingmatism" "Yardbird Suite"

Related	Bebop Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker with Strings Charlie Parker Omnibook

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