Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

6.8 2022 52 min
Documentary Music

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His death will be the ransom of a life that was not denied to the excesses or the consu…

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Directors
Jean-Frédéric Thibault, Arnaud Xainte

Cast

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Pierre Tissot Narrator (voice)
Franck Médioni Self
Charlie Parker Self - Subject (archive footage)
Paul Desmond Self (archive footage)
Jacques Réda Self
Duke Ellington Self (archive footage)
Count Basie Self (archive footage)
Sylvie Kandé Self
Benny Goodman Self (archive footage)
René Urtreger Self
Dizzy Gillespie Self (archive footage)
Charlie Christian Self (archive footage)

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