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Plot:
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Tags:
jazz,
heroin,
saxophone,
biography,
psychiatric hospital,
heroin addict,
electroconvulsive therapy,
death of daughter,
bebop,
eiffel tower, paris,
1950s,
Forest Whitaker Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Michael Zelniker Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright Dizzy Gillespie
Keith David Buster Franklin
Edward C. Carfagno Production Design
Lennie Niehaus Original Music Composer
David Valdes Executive Producer
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