18K views · 866 reactions | Happy Birthday Coleman Hawkins! (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) — Watch this video from a 1950 performance featuring Charlie Parker (alto sax) and Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax), supported by the rhythm section of Hank Jones (piano), Ray Brown (bass) and Buddy Rich (drums). — : Improvisation (1950) / Norman Granz — #CharlieParker #CharlieBirdParker #ColemanHawkins #BuddyRich #BirdLives | Charlie Parker | Facebook

Remembering the great Charlie “Bird” Parker who was born on this day in 1920. Considered the greatest jazz saxophonist of all time, Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and he was one of the primary revolutionary geniuses in jazz. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker’s