"Yardbird Suite" is a bebop standard composed by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker in 1946.[1][2] The title combines Parker's nickname "Yardbird" (often shortened to "Bird") and a colloquial use of the classical music term "suite" (in a manner similar to such jazz titles as Lester Young's "Midnight Symphony" and Duke Ellington's "Ebony Rhapsody"). The composition uses an 32-bar AABA form. The "graceful, hip melody, became something of an anthem for beboppers."[3]
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- ^ Jack Chambers: Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis. Da Capo Press. Boston, 1998. ISBN 978-0-306-80849-4. Pt. I, p. 48