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Parker certainly had much more of an influence.
At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.
Even before his death this influence had begun to ebb.
In fact, the whole generation of the founding fathers of bop -- Gillespie, Monk, Davis, Blakey, and the rest -- are just now at a considerable discount.
The main line of development today goes back to Lester Young and by-passes them.
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