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Radio 4,10 Mar 2009,30 mins

Series Series 7

Charlie Parker

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats

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Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th Century. Ken talks to British jazz musician Soweto Kinch about saxophonist Charlie Parker, one of the founding fathers of the bebop movement. After moving to New York in 1939, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie and helped to push the boundaries of the form. However, his life and career were blighted by a heroin addiction which killed him at the age of just 34.

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