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🙌🏾 This stunning Bird inspired artwork was shared by Vasilis Vazouras
(IG User @vasilisvazouras)

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Remembering Coleman Hawkins: November 21, 1904 –

Remembering Coleman Hawkins:
November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969

Hawkins was a bebop pioneer in the 1940s, and had a successful recording and touring career working with the most talented and influential jazz musicians of the era, such as saxophonists Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Lester Young, percussionist Max Roach, pianists Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, and trumpeters Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.

Watch this timeless performance featuring Bird and Hawkins together. Link available in the IG Story.

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Instagram User @selaws.spins shared this copy of C

Instagram User @selaws.spins shared this copy of CHARLIE PARKER & MILES DAVIS - GRANDE RÉSERVE SAVOY N°4 (SAVOY RECORDS, 1959 FIRST FRENCH PRESSING)

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Happy Birthday to Kai Winding! Kai Winding was bo

Happy Birthday to Kai Winding!

Kai Winding was born on this day in 1922. Kai is a trombonist and jazz composer known for his many notable collaborations including Charlie Parker and trombonist J. J. Johnson. ⠀

Photo: William Gottlieb
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Reposted • @thejazzestate On this day in 1953,

Reposted • @thejazzestate

On this day in 1953, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, saxophonist Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, pianist Bud Powell, bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach met on the stage of Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada to record the historical album The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall. It was the only time that the five musicians recorded together as a unit and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie.

Parker played a Grafton saxophone on this date; he could not be listed on the original album cover for contractual reasons, so was billed as "Charlie Chan", an allusion to the fictional detective and to Parker's wife Chan.

Dubbed "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever", the gig was recorded by Charles Mingus and was released on his label Debut Records. If Mingus hadn't recorded it, the gig might have ended up as little more than a jazz footnote. But the show was released later and became one of the greatest recorded live shows in the history of jazz music.

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Check out this jazzy Bird inspired illustration sh

Check out this jazzy Bird inspired illustration shared by Charlie C.
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Shout out to Dave Grosswald (IG User @grizz51) for

Shout out to Dave Grosswald (IG User @grizz51) for sharing his classic copy of the compilation CHARLIE PARKER VOLUME II.

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Remembering Johnny Hodges: July 25, 1907 – May 1

Remembering Johnny Hodges:
July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970

Benny Goodman described Johnny Hodges as "by far the greatest man on alto sax that I ever heard." Charlie Parker called him "the Lily Pons of his instrument.”

Listen to Bird and Johnny together on “Funky Blues.” Link available in the IG Story.

Photo: Esther Bubley
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🎨 This fantastic Bird inspired artwork was crea

🎨 This fantastic Bird inspired artwork was created by Mike Lai (IG User @mike_lai_creative).

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This vibrant photo of Charlie Parker’s BIRD OF P

This vibrant photo of Charlie Parker’s BIRD OF PARADISE was shared by
Instagram User @starman8028

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Happy Birthday to the legendary Guy Warren of Ghan

Happy Birthday to the legendary Guy Warren of Ghana (also known as Kofi Ghanaba)! 🥁

Warren is best known as the inventor of Afro-Jazz whose mastery on the African Drums earned him the name " Divine Drummer”.

In 1955, Warren met Charlie Parker, who invited him to play talking drum at an all-star concert in New York.

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“Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.” -

“Master your instrument, Master the music, and t

“Master your instrument, Master the music, and then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
— Charlie Parker

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Master the music and listen to Bird play some of his very best on this collection of
THE GENIUS OF CHARLIE PARKER. Link available in the IG Story.
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“There are no two larger figures in jazz than Du

“There are no two larger figures in jazz than Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker.” - The Boston Globe

Happy Birthday, Duke Ellington!

Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades. Duke Ellington is a pivotal inspiration in Charlie Parker’s musical development.

Photo: Michael Ochs
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Shout out to Instagram user @ichimotoinc for

Shout out to Instagram user @ichimotoinc for sharing these showcase shots of BIRD IN LA.

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