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      What was Charlie Parker’s nickname?
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      1. What was Charlie Parker’s nickname?
        1. Dizzy
        2. Satchmo
        3. Bird
        4. Fats

        1. Saxophonist Charlie Parker was given the nickname Yardbird, or just Bird. There is a legend that when he was just starting out and on tour, the band’s car hit a chicken (a yard bird) and Parker took it home to eat. He was also known to be “as free as a bird."

      2. Charlie Parker is created with developing what style of music?
        1. Dixieland
        2. Bebop
        3. Fusion
        4. Big Band

        1. Along with innovators like Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, Parker developed solos that were built on the chords' extended intervals, such as ninths, elevenths and thirteenths and helped usher in Bebop.

      3. How old was Charlie Parker when he died?
        1. 62
        2. 56
        3. 48
        4. 34

        1. Parker was just 34 years old when he died. Years of drug and alcohol abuse led to his untimely death. He was mourned throughout the jazz world. His recordings are considered some of the greatest jazz records ever made.

      4. Who created an homage to Parker with their now classic hit Birdland?
        1. Weather Report
        2. Manhattan Transfer
        3. Stan Kenton Band
        4. The Brecker Brothers

        1. Weather Report’s highly acclaimed big band standard Birdland (by keyboardist Joe Zawinul) was featured on the album Heavy Weather and was a dedication to Charlie Parker.

      5. What Academy Award-winning actor played Charlie Parker in the bio-pic Bird?
        1. Denzel Washington
        2. Wesley Snipes
        3. Billy Dee Williams
        4. Forest Whitaker

        1. The great actor Forest Whitaker played the troubled genius Charlie Parker in the 1988 film Bird. He would later win the Oscar for his role as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

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