Charlie Parker “Celebrity”
Charlie Parker was born to Charles Sr. and Addie Parker on August 29, 1920. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Parker had no formal training in music and started playing the saxophone at 11. He didn’t have his own saxophone so he used rented school instruments. He played baritone with the school band [...]
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker “Hot House”
John Birks Gillespie was born in Cheraw, South Carolina in 1917. His father was a band leader who encouraged his children to learn to play musical instruments. Gillespie could play the piano by age 4 and taught himself to play the trombone. He switched to playing trumpet when he was 12.
Gillespie got his first [...]
Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker
I don’t what the relationship between Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins was but I would say from looking at the body language in this video that they didn’t like each other. Maybe they had a little bit of a disagreement before this was shot.
