Anthropology
Context
This theme by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie appears on Bird Call, the first album by alto saxophonist and singer Vi Redd, released on United Artists in 1962, with Russ Freeman, Herb Ellis, Roy Ayers and Carmell Jones. The album gives pride of place to Parker's repertoire ("Now's the Time," "Perhaps/Cool Blues," "I Remember Bird").
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), West Coast. Among the origins and influences of Bebop: Kansas City, Swing, big bands.