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Confirmation – Charlie Parker

2 Comments Posted by on July 4, 2012

It may not be a complex animation, but Bird’s horn fills it in nicely.

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2 responses to “Confirmation – Charlie Parker”

  1. marcmarrs's avatarmarcmarrs July 4, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    The man was a master. Smooth and mellow like…birdsong. Its no wonder they called him Bird.

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  2. ruffled crow's avatarruffled crow July 4, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    I agree with the sentiment, though the story behind the nickname is pretty fun.

    Seems he and traveling with a band to their next gig, back roads and such, when they ran over a chicken. Was said that Parker didn’t want the “yard bird” to go to waste, picked it up and cooked it later for dinner. The nickname ‘Yardbird’ stuck and over time got shortened to just ‘Bird’.

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