Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker

More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker—known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird."


Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic genius, and inspired improvisations helped launch a whole new era in jazz, an era that began with bop and culminated in the "cool" or modern jazz of the fifties. His brilliant handling of the alto saxophone inspired a generation of jazz musicians; without him, there would have been no John Coltrane, ...