Monday Music Mania - Charlie Parker the self-destructive jazz hero still wields influence 50 years on...

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Here is a story about one of the greats, Charlie Parker.

Saxophonist Charlie Parker, who helped invent the modern jazz style of be-bop, was also one of jazz's first existential heroes -- a famously self-destructive genius who died at age 34.

Compositions like "Ko-Ko" and "Scrapple From The Apple," and his edgy, lightning-speed improvisations, helped bring a modernity to jazz that had already touched other arts such as painting nearly a half-century before.

Asked about jazz history, trumpet legend Miles Davis said it could be summed up in only four words: "Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker.

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