The Bird
by CHAZ Daugherty
Title
The Bird
Artist
CHAZ Daugherty
Medium
Painting - Painting
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"Jazz legend Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker blazed through American music like a meteor, burning out in his early 30s. Yet the alto saxophonist ranks high in the pantheon of American genius for his artistry, innovations, and impact. A larger-than-life figure, he changed jazz forever." (Wall Street Journal). A musical innovator of the first rank, one who helped create a paradigm shift for jazz music, a fresh language for improvisation, and a new genre, dubbed "Bebop" or simply "bop." After moving to New York from Kansas City in 1942, he bonded with the brash trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in jam sessions, and like a research scientist Parker experimented in their jamming 'lab', pointing the way for countless musicians to follow.
Parker died at the age of 34 in 1955, but "The Bird" lives on in more than 1,500 recordings, and he was immortalized in sculpture, paintings, fiction, films, postage stamps, and even as an opera: "Charlie Parker's Yardbird." And a famous nightclub in New York called "Birdland" still features top jazz artists today. George Shearing even wrote a hit song in the late 50s called "lullaby of Birdland"... Sleep well, Bird... You really started something, and it still lives on!
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