Charlie Parker – Bird In Kansas City (CD) artist-stephen-bloch Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)

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Charlie Parker – Bird In Kansas City (CD) artist-stephen-bloch Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)Parker's Kansas City years were foundational, the period when a teenage prodigy was absorbing blues, swing, and the competitive cutting session culture of 18th and Vine before taking that vocabulary to New York and reinventing jazz entirely. Hearing him in informal settings, away from the studio pressure of his landmark Savoy and Dial sessions, reveals just how deeply rooted his revolutionary language was in the Missouri soil where it first grew.