Confirmation is probably one of my favorite bebop heads to play.
The changes, in the first four bars, are used as a substitute for the traditional blues changes of I IV I. A good example is Blues For Alice.
What characterizes measures 1-4 harmonically is the ii V walk-downs.
This type of progression is one common way to cycle through 1 bar ii V licks. Confirmation is ideal to use to implement those licks in the context of a tune.
The recording I chose is with the Oscar Peterson Trio.
I was stunned by how versed he is with the bebop melodic language because jazz musicians tend not, to consider him to be a bebop pianist per se.
