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Bird
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Charlie Parker (1920–1955), the jazz legend credited as an originator of bebop, the jazz style that followed the big band swing era US, 1946- [N]ow it was the beginning–returning to the Red Drum for sets, to hear Bird[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 14, 1958
- Ah, yes, the Bird–and ole Diz–then here’s Miss Sarah herself. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 24, 1961
- Gus gave me a whole album of 78’s by Bird called Charlie Parker with Strings. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 148, 1965
- Fifteen years ago I knew a raggedly kid out of Chicago who used to come uptown to a place where me, Dizzy, and Bird jammed. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 127, 1965
- Some skinnny joker with scald burns on his face was fronting a combo. He tried to ape the “Birds” phrasing and tone. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 95, 1969
- In that atmosphere, with the spiraled hints of Bird, Prez, Diz or Miles cuttin’ up on somebody’s box, we’d have orgies. — Odie Hawkins, Black Casanova, p. 163, 1984
- All the great black musicians–Bird, Diz, Thelonius, Bud Powell, Miles, Kenny Clarke, etc., etc. were first appreciated there. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 4, 1986
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