set gArticles = [["Partwork"], ["pic", "cutting", "cutting", "cutting", "pic", "cutting"]]
set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, June 28, 1973", "Times Literary Supplement, Nov 14, 1963", "The Sunday Times, April 26, 1987", 0, "The Times, May 2, 1988"]]
set gName = getat(["Parker"],1)
@[]#DESPERATE STRUGGLE#TOP CAT WAS A BIRD#THE COMPLETE CHARLIE##CAUGHT ON THE WING
The nickname "Bird" is nothing to do with Parker's music. It is because he had from childhood a particular liking for fried chicken, and hens are known in his home state as 'yardbirds'#"If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats" - full title of Dizzy Gillespie's "Gunslinging Bird"#"It's either one thing or the other - either good music or otherwise. Call it swing, bebop or dixieland. If it's good music it will be heard."#In 1941 Charlie Parker made his first recording playing baritone saxophone in Jay McShann's big band where he met Dizzy Gillespie#The soundtrack of the 1988 Charlie Parker biopic "Bird" featured original band members playing over Parker's remastered solos#The first recording issued in Charlie Parker's own name was released in 1945, and included the classic track "Koko"
