That’s what I love about listening to Bird and Miles...
Bird is the Bird of Paradise. Absolutely killing it with hundreds of notes and not one is wasted.
Then in comes Miles, slowing it all down and showing you can do the exact same thing with just a few.
: )
"Parker worked tirelessly on his craft, practicing the saxophone day and night, often fueled by Benzedrine. Parker was a speed and heroin user from then until the end of his life."
http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/charlie-parkers-heroin-addiction-helped-make-him-a-genius/
That's the dark side of the music culture's bidness model... killing it.
"They worshiped and served created things, and because of this..."
--Romans Chapter 1
But, OTOH:
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Groove-Composing-Jazz-Shaped-Faith/dp/0692371303