Inside the Music of Sonny's style

Louis Armstong
Slow and soothing, and a drawn out pace but also more piano
Parker
Uplifting, groovy pace, Sax is much louder bass is lower tonality which makes for a harmoniuos counteraction between the two- synonymous with Sonny's battle.
Sonny is filling voids in his life, whether it is with drugs or with music. The void he fills with music is that of creation and it's an obstinate sort of life in the music which Sonny finds from living in despair with drugs. The music offers him a form of insight into why he was doing what he was doing to himself. Paker's music is more lively with a progressive pace to it, Armstrong's music slows you down- it makes you inflect instead of reflect. Sonny and Parkers style of Jazz is a portrayl of this kind of living in music, where what they create is a relection of their life styles and the absolute control one searches for; in Sonny's case, music or drugs.