Charlie Parker 5

A Leonardo DaVinci way ahead of his time genius,bebop's biggest name player-and poster boy of jazz drug culture ,who died at 34(just to start an argument I have him no higher than fourth place in the abuse department behind Stan Getz,Art Pepper and my pick for numero uno-Chet Baker,who was just getting warmed up at 34 and went out a window at 58-see for example 'The Long Night of Chet Baker' or if you can the documentary 'Let's Get Lost' the recently momentarily re-released documentary on Baker's life);anyway,I'm not sure what the classical musicians were thinking who went along with the 'Charlie Parker with Strings' album.Bird blows 'em away.Alsoif you haven't seen it,check out 'Bird' with Forrest Whitaker.