Charlie Parker - 1950
4'49"

Charlie Parker (Charles Christopher Parker jr.1920, Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. - 1955) was a saxophonist who invented the Bebop musical style. The other Bebop musician was Dizzy Gillespie.

From 1935 to 1938 Charlie Parker played with his band in Kansas City having a good success. He therefore decided to move to New York in 1939.

From 1940 to 1951 his career took him to Europe and again to the United States with great success.

In 1945 he recorded with Dizzie Gillespie and Miles Davis some songs of the genre bebop.

Best songs

• 1937 They Can not Take That Away from Me
• 1947 Out of Nowhere
• 1950 If I Should Lose You
• 1932 April in Paris
• 1964 I Did not Know What Time It Was
• 1952 Lullaby of Birdland
• 1945 Hot House
• 1942 Salt Peanuts