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Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker
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| Title | Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker |
| Abstract | Photos and descriptions of Charlie Parker (1920-1955), or Charles Parker, Jr., a black jazz musician nicknamed "Bird." Born in Kansas City, Kansas on August 29, 1920 (at 852 Freeman Street) to Addie Boyley Parker (or Addie Parker) and Charles Parker, Sr. before moving with his parents to Kansas City, Missouri in 1927 and dying in New York City on March 12, 1955 at the Stanhope Hotel due to pneumonia. |
| Author | Robert George Reisner
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| Date | 1962 |
| Location | 780.92 P238r |
| Page | 160-162, 234-237 |
| Local Subject | Parker, Charlie
Musicians
African Americans
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| Item Type | Book
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 118228 |
| CONTENTdm number | 8209 |
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