"Bop was somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis."
Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part One Chapter 3
"Then had come Charlie Parker, a kid in his mother’s woodshed in Kansas City, blowing his taped-up alto among the logs, practicing on rainy days, coming out to watch the old swinging Basie and Benny Moten band that had Hot Lips Page and the rest – Charlie Parker leaving home and coming to Harlem, and meeting mad Thelonius Monk and madder Gillespie – Charlie Parker in his early days when he was flipped and walked around in a circle while playing."
Jack Kerouac - On The Road Part Three Chapter 10
