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Charlie Parker
1920 - 1955
Birth place
Kansas City, United S..
Death place
New York, United Stat..
Charlie Parker Jr. aka Bird, Yarbird, Zoizeau; one of the absolute giants of jazz, but everybody knows that (film recommendation: Clint Eastwood's 'Bird' with Forest Whitaker in the title role) / cirrhosis of the liver, stomach rupture, heart attack and lung infection, having been weakened by heroin use since the age of 15
Buried by The Beat Goes On on March 12, 2011
