Now Bix Beiderbecke it happened to, Fats Waller wasn't too old, Charlie Parker, Frankie Teschmaker.
In the early 1950s, he was blown away by the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
Over the years, "My Old Flame" was recorded by Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker practically everybody but Dave Brubeck.
He locked himself in a downtown Los Angeles loft with a saxophone to prepare for his role as Charlie Parker in Bird.
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But it was on Manhattan's 52nd Street that Roach started experimenting with harmony and melody alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
When she was just 16-years-old, she was performing with some of the great names of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.
Desmond thrived at medium tempos, separating him from the mass of saxophonists ripping through bebop chord changes in the wake of Charlie Parker .
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The Belgian-born Thielemans has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and many others.
The "King of Bop, " Charlie Parker, hired the 22-year-old for a West Coast tour in 1952 after which Gerry Mulligan added him to his LA-based quartet.
He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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But because of the nature of instrumentation and the technology, it was always done through the person, through Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet or Charlie Parker's saxophone.
Then, we are confronted with lush strings, followed quickly by the warm, rich, round, yet complex notes of Charlie Parker, perhaps the most influential saxophonist of the 20th century.
By giving promising musicians a platform in his bands, Mr. McBride is doing for younger players what legends like saxophonist Charlie Parker or drummer Art Blakey did for the generation that followed them.
Legend has it that Gillespie, one of the architects of the bebop revolution with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, was already playing oddly dissonant solos when he was with Cab Calloway's band in 1939.
So was Jazz at the Philharmonic, the now-legendary series of concert tours in which Granz brought together such illustrious artists as Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, Buddy Rich and Lester Young.
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Mr. JACKIE MCLEAN (Saxophonist): We'd go downtown at 8:30, see Charlie Parker walking to the clubs, stand outside the club until about quarter of ten and make a mad dash for the subway so we could get home.
Charlie Parker, a Londoner who was with a group of 22 racing enthusiasts packing up and leaving the course, said: "We were told by one of the trainers that it was a threat from an IRA splinter group".
Musically, his career blazed a long and brilliant trail from bebop with Charlie Parker to epoch-making cool jazz, orchestral suites with arranger Gil Evans and landmark quintets which launched such young stars as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.
Charlie Adam left for Liverpool, Scott Parker left for Tottenham, and the rich continued to get richer.
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