Good Job (He Was A Beautiful Player) - J.K. Simmons

Lyrics by：Various Artists

Composed by：Various Artists

I told you the story about how Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker right

Yeah Joe Jones threw a cymbal at his head

Exactly

Parker's a young kid pretty good on the sax

Gets up to play at a cutting session

And Jones nearly decapitates him for it

And he's laughed off stage

Cries himself to sleep that night

But the next morning what does he do

He practices

And he practices and he practices with one goal in mind

Never to be laughed at again

And a year later he goes back to the Reno

And he steps up on that stage

And he plays the best solo the world has ever heard

So imagine if Jones had just said

"Well that's okay Charlie- ahh that was alright

Good job"

And Charlie thinks to himself

"I did do a pretty good job"

End of story

No bird

That to me is an absolute tragedy

But that's just what the world wants now

People wonder why jazz is dying

I tell you man

And every Starbucks "jazz" album just proves my point really

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "Good job"