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- NAME: Charlie Parker
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Saxophonist
- BIRTH DATE: August 29, 1920
- DEATH DATE: March 12, 1955
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Kansas City, Kansas
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Jazz great Charlie ("Bird") Parker caused a jazz revolution as a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader in the 1940s and 50s.
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Charlie "Bird" Parker (born August 29, 1920) took up the alto saxophone at age 13. He soon quit school to play at Kansas City clubs. When he teamed up with trumpeter Dizzie Gillespie, they developed a new sound called "bebop." Parker reached his career ze
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