A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him, Jazz
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PPT - Charlie Parker (1920-1955) PowerPoint Presentation, free download - ID:1694031
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Charlie 'Bird' Parker: The Tragic Saxophone Genius With A Voracious Appetite For Drugs, Hard Liquor And Jazz The Independent The Independent
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Cool Facts About Charlie Parker, The Tortured Genius - Factinate
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Bird on Film: Charlie Parker Gets Lost in a Fan's New Movie - The Atlantic
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Charlie 'Bird' Parker: The Tragic Saxophone Genius With A Voracious Appetite For Drugs, Hard Liquor And Jazz The Independent The Independent
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The Paris Review - The Shuffle and the Breath: On Charlie Watts - The Paris Review
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Did Jo Jones Really Throw a Cymbal at Charlie Parker's Head?, Blog
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The Life and Work of Charlie Parker
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Remembering: Jo Jones October 7, 1911 – September 3, 1985 Jones was an American jazz drummer, band leader and pioneer in jazz percussion who anchored, By Charlie Parker
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An Old Jazz Collector Tribute To Charlie Parker
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