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American Masters | Promotion | How Charlie "YardBird" Parker got his nickname

Charlie Parker's nickname "Yardbird" came to be while he was on the way to a gig with some fellow musicians and involved a bird in a yard that had an unfortunate fate.

0:01:51 | AIRED: 7/23/2019 |

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

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The Adventures of Saul Bellow

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