@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker Volume II Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1950s, Jazz, Bebop, Kansas City, Missouri 7/26 Matrix #: FS-232 Condition: Sealed (LM) | Members: Charlie P (20' - 55') Cultural Facts:
Personal Struggle: Parker battled heroin addiction, alcoholism, financial instability, and declining health, dying at just 34 after living so hard that the coroner reportedly estimated him decades older.
Scene Ecology: Parker helped invent bebop, replacing swing-era dance music with blistering tempos, complex harmony, and improvisation that changed the technical language of jazz.
Media Narrative: Nicknamed “Bird,” Parker became both musical revolutionary and tragic myth, influencing generations of saxophonists while his chaotic life became inseparable from his legend.
