Yesterday was Charlie Parker's birthday. Bird would have been 87 years old had he lived to this ripe old age. Instead he collapsed on March 12, 1955, in Baroness Pannonica's suite at the Hotel Stanhope on New York's Fifth Ave. at age 34 following years of drug abuse.
In celebration of Bird's birthday, the album I chose to listen to all day yesterday was …
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