VOA慢速英语 查理帕克对爵士乐的影响深远

　　Charlie Parker,1920-1955: His Music Influenced Jazz During his Lifetime and Even Today

　　查理帕克对爵士乐的影响深远

　　VOICE ONE:

　　I'm Shirley Griffith.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker. He influenced the direction of jazz music during his short lifetime. His influence continues today.

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　　VOICE ONE:

　　Charlie Parker forever changed the performance and writing of jazz music. He developed a new style of jazz called "bebop." It was different from the dance or "swing" style that was popular for years.

　　Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time. So, the same song could be played in a different way each time it was performed. Charlie Parker said: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. "

　　VOICE TWO:

　　Charlie Parker was born August twenty-ninth, nineteen twenty, in the middle western state of Kansas. He had his first music lessons in the local public schools. His mother bought him a saxophone in nineteen thirty-three.

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