Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music.

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured