Photos, illustrations, and information on Charlie Parker (1920-1955), a world-famous Kansas City jazz musician nicknamed "Yardbird" or "Bird." Born in Kansas City, Kansas, and moving to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1927 with residence at 1535 Olive Street, becoming a jazz musician here in the 1930s starting at Lincoln High School and local nightclubs before leaving for New York City in 1940 (becoming the namesake of the Birdland jazz hall there, etc.). Co-creator of bebop jazz with a memorial statue of him at the Kansas City Jazz Museum along with his only known extant saxophone.
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