Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States on August 29th, 1920 and is the Saxophonist. At the age of 34, Charlie Parker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker was a well-known jazz soloist and the leading figure in the bebop revival, which was characterized by brisk tempos, virtuosic technique, and sophisticated harmonies.
Parker was a lightning-fast virtuoso, introduced new versions of altered chords, and chord substitutions.
His voice shifted from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Parker began with the name "yardbird" early in his career with Jay McShann.
"Bird" and the shortened form "Bird" continued to be used for the remainder of his life, inspiring the names of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite," "Ornithology," "Bird Gets the Worm," and "Bird of Paradise."
Parker portrayed the jazz musician as a unified performer and scholar rather than merely an entertainer, a symbol of the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation.
Personal life
Parker's life was plagued with mental illness and heroin use. Although the order of birth is uncertain, his opium addiction began at the age of 16, when he was injured in a car crash and a doctor prescribed morphine for the pain. He missed appearances and was deemed unreliable as a result of his heroin use after this incident. Heroine use in the jazz scene was extremely popular, and the drug could be obtained with little difficulty.
Parker's behavior became more erratic as he made some excellent recordings during that period. Heroin was impossible to obtain before he moved to California, where the drug was less popular, so he used alcohol as a substitute. A video from his Dial label from July 29, 1946 gives an account of his illness. Parker drank a quart of whiskey before this session. Parker missed the majority of the first two bars of his first chorus on the track "Max Making Wax," according to liner notes on Dial Volume 1. He swayed a lot and spun all the way around, away from his microphone when he finally did come in. "Life Man," producer Ross Russell physically supported Parker on the next tune. Parker's last track, "Bebop," he begins as a solo performer on his first eight bars; on his second eight bars, however, he begins to fail, and the trumpeter, Howard McGhee, yells, "Blow." At him. Despite its flaws, Charles Mingus considered this version of "Lover Man" to be one of Parker's finest performances. Despite this, Parker feared the film and would never blame Ross Russell for releasing it. Verve's 1951 recording of the tune.
In March 1954, Parker's three-year-old daughter Pree died of cystic fibrosis and pneumonia. He attempted suicide twice in 1954, but was later arrested in a mental hospital.
