00:00 Introduction Traditional opening vamp (4 bars x 2). A voice says “Lady Be Good?” 

00:17 Chorus 1 (32 bars, 8 x 4.) Piano, bass, drum set; features Arnold Ross, piano.

00:18 a The Gerswhin melody at first, improvisatory thereafter.

00:30 a The chord progression of the song is maintained throughout: the listener's mind provides the melody, . . .

00:43 b as the pianist (and later, Parker) weaves the cool, complex bebop:

00:57 a thus something old, something new. 

01:11 Chorus 2 Parker’s first chorus (32 bars). The sax somewhat wheezy.

01:12 a Only the first four notes are recognizable as Gershwin’s melody.

01:25 a In his first chorus he generally proceeds from syncopated figures in eighth-and quarter notes.

01:39 b Parker has the content of both 32-bars choruses in mind from the start. 

01:52 a . . .

02:06 Chorus 3 Parker’s second chorus (32 bars). New background figure in trpt., sax.

02:07 a In bar 5 (02:14) he sets out in a flurry of arching 16th-note phrases . . .

02:20 a . . . with the phrase contours and content closely related to each other.

02:34 b . . .

02:48 a The closing motives refer to Parker’s opening gambit in chorus 2.

03:03 (appl.) (The other players go on to do their choruses.)