"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker (American bandleader, saxophonist and composer. Principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop. 1920-1955)

 

 

Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr., also known as "Yardbird" and "Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Miles Davis once said, "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker."

 

 

Born: August 29, 1920, Kansas City

Died: March 12, 1955, New York City

Spouse: Chan Parker

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