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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
American Masters, committed to producing comprehensive film biographies about the broad cast of characters who comprise our cultural history.
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Season 4 Episode 5 | 58m 32s | CC
At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution in modern jazz music. At thirty-four, he was dead from years of drug and alcohol use. Today, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century. We're bringing this film back to celebrate what would have been Charlie's 100th birthday in August 2020.
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