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Charlie Parker
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Inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, 1994.
His instrumental recording, "Barbados" (featuring
Miles Davis
on trumpet) was #15 on Billboard Magazine's R&B charts in December 1948.
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979.
The lead character in
Jim Jarmusch
's first feature film,
Permanent Vacation (1980)
repeatedly says he wants to be "just like Charlie Parker".
Along with trumpet legend
Dizzy Gillespie
, he created the sporadic rhythms known as "be bop" in the 1950s.
Is portrayed by
Forest Whitaker
in
Bird (1988)
.
Literary critic
Harold Jack Bloom
once wrote, "If God appeared in 19th Century America, it was as
Ralph Waldo Emerson
. In the 20th Century it would have been as Charlie Parker."
He is the hero of Sebastian (
Ryan Gosling
) in
Damien Chazelle
's film
La La Land (2016)
.
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