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Charlie Watts on Charlie Parker

on BBC Radio 2

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts presents a series profiling the greatjazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, who died in 1955, aged 35. The story continues with early days of bebop in Harlem, well before Parker and Dizzy Gillespie 's 1945 recordings together.
Featuring Ray Brown ,
Earl Hines , Parker and Gillespie.

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Charlie Watts
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Ray Brown
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Earl Hines

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