Icons of an Era, Part 1: Charlie Parker

Arguably no jazz artist shaped the 1950s like Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, although he only lived through half of it. His innovations in the 1940s had set the template for the bold new jazz vocabulary known as bebop, which influenced nearly every player — particularly saxophonists — who followed. Of course, some of his influence would...

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