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"Bird Lives" sculpture
by Robert Graham
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During a short but significant career, Parker established himself as an inventive and gifted saxophone soloist and as one of the great jazz innovators of all time.
He is also credited with heavily influencing the development of bebop.
Parker, who battled an addiction to heroin that began during his teenage years, died at New York's Stanhope Hotel in 1955 at just 34 years of age.
If words were sounds, Parker's version of Gershwin's Summertime would be the dictionary definition of "sublime."
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