Parker had doted over Pree, her younger brother Baird and his step-child Kim. In , Kim Parker gave a revealing interview to Jazz Ambassadors in which she talked about Parker the man. She said he loved toys, magic games, ice cream, television westerns and the singing of Peggy Lee.
You, Bird! His drugs and alcohol and all that stuff, that his excesses had somehow poisoned her. He was often homeless and stupefied by drink and drugs.
His death had grim elements of comedy and melodrama. Parker had come to rely on funds from an eccentric rich jazz fan called Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. When Parker visited her at her suite in the Stanhope Hotel, he told her his ulcer was causing him pain and asked for iced water. When he started vomiting blood, he was examined by her doctor, who prescribed him antibiotics.
After a couple of days of rest, he felt better. The coroner conducting his autopsy initially thought that he was examining a man of It sums up the wayward genius of Parker to know that he played the concert using a white plastic alto saxophone, having pawned his favourite brass one. Parker extended the improvisational boundaries of music in a brief, dazzling life that was eloquently summed up by Kim Parker.
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Join us. WAS IT During the summer of , Parker played at the club where he had been scheduled to perform at the time of his accident the previous year When he returned to Kansas City in the fall, he was a completely different player. People who had made fun of him now sought him out to play solos at their shows. He was unfaithful to Rebecca and became abusive toward her, so his mother kicked him out of the house.
Homeless and jobless, Parker left for New York in In New York, Parker reunited with Buster Smith, got a job busing tables in a restaurant, and jammed with other musicians. He developed a quicker, more complex, highly improvisational technique of soloing that became the hallmark of bebop. While other saxophonists, such as Coleman Hawkins, had hinted at the bebop style, Charlie Parker fully explored its possibilities.
Around the same time, Charlie picked up his legendary nickname. In , Charlie briefly reconciled with Rebecca in Kansas City. Shortly thereafter, Parker left his family to pursue his career. Together, these jazz artists started a musical revolution. However, his addictions to drugs and alcohol, along with his emotional instability, continued to sabotage his success. He was constantly out of money and often resorted to selling his saxophone to get money for drugs.
He married three more times and had three more children. He was regularly late or failed to show up at all for recording sessions and performances, and his addictions often caused his playing to suffer.
By the time of his death, Parker had been hospitalized several times due to both physical and mental illnesses, and had attempted suicide twice.
Despite his short life, Parker is widely cited as one of the most innovative and influential musicians in American history.
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