Barbados (composition)

"Barbados" is a jazz tune composed by Charlie Parker. It is a twelve-bar blues set to a mambo rhythm.[1] Parker first recorded it on 29 August, 1948, with Miles Davis (trumpet), John Lewis (piano), Curly Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums).[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Stearns, Marshall Winslow (1970). The Story of Jazz. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0195012690. 
  2. ^ Koch, Lawrence O. (1988). Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0879722606.