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Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022)
TV Movie | 52 min | Documentary, Biography

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Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022)

TV Movie | 52 min | Documentary, Biography

Born in 1920 in Kansas City, Charlie Parker wandered alone at night from the age of 11, getting drunk on cigarettes and soon on alcohol, before discovering heroin at 16. Precocious, this music bulimic listens to everything, blues, jazz, ...See moreBorn in 1920 in Kansas City, Charlie Parker wandered alone at night from the age of 11, getting drunk on cigarettes and soon on alcohol, before discovering heroin at 16. Precocious, this music bulimic listens to everything, blues, jazz, classical, blowing in his alto saxophone from eleven to fifteen hours a day, as a self-taught virtuoso. With the pianist Thelonious Monk, the drummers Kenny Clarke or Max Roach and especially the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, soul brother, "Bird" propels jazz in the era of the performance, between dazzling and rivalries. In 1949, during a tour in Europe with Miles Davis, he conquered the Saint-Germain-des-Prés of Juliette Gréco and Boris Vian, before the mythical recordings and the glory. But the death of his 3 year old daughter sends him back to hell. See less

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26 cast members

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Roy Aldridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Charlie Christian Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Save the Tiger (1973)
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Boris Vian Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Two Days in Paris (2007)