Only the best die young" -to how many musicians does this actually apply' To way too many: in Rock and Pop, Classical Music, and of course also in Jazz. Charlie "Bird" Parker is one of them: He was born in Kansas in 1920 and died in New York City in March 1955. He was not even 35 years old.
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