"It sounded like a member of the Charlie Parker school. I've never liked that school—it's one of those out-of-tune, honking-type things..."
— Charlie Parker

January 1, 1970

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, circa 1959, unwittingly assessing the actual Charlie Parker for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test," specifically in regard to "Old Folks" from Jazz Perennial: The Genius of Charlie Parker #7; as quoted in The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1960) by Leonard Feather, p. 480