Expand dialog containing embedded video. Cosponsors Eisen Family Foundation. Joseph and Madeleine Glossberg. Eric and Deb Hirschfield. Kenneth R. The truth is less dramatic. Bass player Gene Ramey, one of the musicians present that day, recalled what happened in the book Jazz Matters. Parker later explained that he played his horn for up to 15 hours a day in this period. In the same year as his public humiliation, Parker married his high school sweetheart Rebecca Ruffin.
It was around this time that the teenager got hooked on drugs. Parker and Ruffin soon drifted apart — she brought up their son Leon on her own — and Parker went to Chicago to try his luck as a musician. Smith took pity on Parker, gave him some gigs with his band, and let him stay at his apartment for six months.
Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a day free trial. Word of his amazing talent spread. His life in New York was starting to unravel, exacerbated by the vast amount of drugs and hard liquor he was consuming. Parker had always had a voracious appetite, and his eating habits took on a crazed frenzy. He would eat several Mexican meals just before playing and had even been known to scoff 20 hamburgers in a row. His erratic lifestyle fills his biographies, including incidents of Parker hurling a saxophone out of a bedroom window or strolling into the ocean wearing a new suit.
Quincy Jones recalls meeting Parker around this time. He had a white shirt on and a big belly. Bird and me. Parker conned money out of Jones to score drugs and promptly vanished. Read Spotlight Guide. Seattle Opera believes in opera for all. Learn more. Joshua Stewart. Frederick Ballentine. Angela Brown. Seattle Opera Debut Feb. Jorell Williams. Mainstage Debut Feb.
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Ron Daniels. Riccardo Hernandez. Emily Rebholz. There is the 'free as a bird' theory, which found a home with those who believed his playing was free or not constrained or confined. However, Bob Wallace remembers this anecdote:. Customer to Bird: "I hear you are Charlie Parker and in town.
Bird to customer: "That's right, man. Customer: "Well, play me some of those good ole down-home-in-the-alley blues. And you know what I mean - Memphis Slim style. Parker looked back at the piano player. Bird played bar after bar, everyone different. At the end:. Customer to Parker:"Say, here now Don't they called you Yardbird? I see why now - man, you really fly. Bird, with darts in his eye, packed up his horn and cut out, cursing.
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