It's Charlie Parker Day

The title & the blockquoted text are Verbatim

Born this day in 1920, Charles
Parker Jr, "The Bird."

I don't know what to make about
astrology, but the fact that
Charlie Parker and Lester Young
were born two days apart on the
calendar gives me pause.

As a young man, Parker studied
Lester Young solos intensely and
his work yielded sounds that pushed
jazz into a new stratosphere.

Video:

http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/7307.html

Ken McCarthy

- Lester Perkins
Jazz on the Tube

P.S. Please share Jazz on the Tube with your
friends and colleagues.

If they like jazz, they're going to love this.

Louis Armstrong may be the only musician more important to the history of jazz than Charlie Parker. The red ink will link you to anything better than I could write about BIRD, who is here, there, and everywhere