Music1940–1955
Charlie Parker
Kansas City, Kansas saxophonist known as Bird who co-invented bebop with Dizzy Gillespie and played with a technical fluency and harmonic sophistication that changed jazz forever.
Origin
Kansas City, Kansas
Genre
Jazz
The Cultural Record
Discography
Bird and Diz1952
Jam Session1990
Blue Rondo1997
Super Session2002
Radio Bird2023
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