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…showed last 75 words of 952 total…raised 5th, which can be heard in Ravel and Debussy. Charlie Parker was fonder of musical quotations than any jazz artist who came before him. His improvisations included melodies from Bizet, Stravinsky, and Wagner, popular songs, light classics, and from earlier jazz performances such as Louis Armstrong's West End Blues. The fact that musical quotations became a popular characteristic of bop style jazz music is another testimony to Charlie Parker's stylistical influence on jazz music.