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The Jazz-Blues Motif In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
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Charlie Parker
Creole and "Am I Blue?"
One of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time.
Sonny idolizes him.
He's referenced a couple times through his nickname, "Bird" Parker.
Questions the use of a Creole man and a song written by two white people.
Creole, the leader of the band, helped Sonny push through his struggles.
Alienation and Individualism
Parker v. Armstrong
Sonny is a drug attic and a jazz musician and his brother is a respectable Algebra teacher.
Jazz is an individualized type of music.
Sonny is Thoreau's "different drummer."
Sonny listens to Charlie Parker where as his brother listens to Louis Armstrong.
His brother wants nothing more than to veer away from the "black" stereotype.
Ralph Ellison
He thinks of jazz musicians as "achieving that subtle identification between his instrument and his deepest drives which will allow him to express his own unique ideas and his own unique voice. He must achieve, in short, his self-determined identity."
Albert says:
“He had tried, as best he could, to reject his black self through becoming a respectable math teacher and dissociating himself from black culture as much as possible.”