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Person · 1920–1955

Charlie Parker

The alto saxophonist who was the principal architect of bebop.

A revolution in [[jazz]].

"Bird" remade jazz with breathtaking speed and harmonic daring, co-creating bebop and influencing virtually every musician who followed.

Jazz

On the timeline

  1. November 26, 1945
    Charlie Parker and the birth of bebop on record

    Parker's "Ko-Ko" session — with Gillespie and a young Miles Davis — captures bebop as a recorded revolution.

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