In the collection
8 records
The Magnificent Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, 1955
Bass On Top
Paul Chambers Quartet, 1957
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius, 1976
The Paris Concert: Salle Pleyel, 1978
Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels Pedersen, 1979
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 14
Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, 1980
Europa Jazz
Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Max Roach, 1981
Bird & Diz
Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie, 1983
Selecciones Círculo De La Música Jazz
Various, 1991
Played with
Al Haig
3 records together
Max Roach
3 records together
Miles Davis
3 records together
Billie Holiday
2 records together
Kenny Dorham
2 records together
Oscar Peterson
2 records together
Dizzy Gillespie
2 records together
Ray Brown
2 records together
Benny Goodman
2 records together
The Charlie Parker Quintet
2 records together
Tommy Potter
2 records together
Cole Porter
2 records together
About
American alto saxophonist, composer and bebop pioneer (b. August 29, 1920, Kansas City - d. March 12, 1955, New York City, aged 34). Widely considered to be one of the most influential of jazz saxophonists, jazz musicians, and indeed musicians in general. Also known as ‘Bird’ (a shortening of ‘Yardbird’, Parker acquired the nickname early in his career with many contradictory stories regarding the name’s origin). Parker was an extremely fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions.
Parker died on March 12, 1955 in the age of only 34 in the suite of his friend and patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Stanhope Hotel in New York City. The official causes of death were lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer, but Parker also had an advanced case of cirrhosis and had suffered a heart attack. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker’s 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age.
Common-law husband of Chan Parker.