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Charlie Parker’s Yardbird
A Selected Cultural and Historical Timeline
1980s
1990s
1979
Parker is inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of
Fame.
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Charlie Parker receives a Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award.
1991
Miles Davis dies at age 65.
1988
Clint Eastwood’s motion picture “Bird” is released.
The biopic stars Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker.
Nica Koenigswarter dies at 74.
1989
Doris Parker organizes the first “Evening with Friends
of Charlie Parker” concerts to benefit a drug rehabilitation
program in New York. Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie
perform.
1993
Chan Parker publishes her memoir
My Life in
E-Flat
.
Dizzy Gillespie dies at age of 75.
1999
Chan Parker dies at age 74.
Brigette A. Wimberly’s first play
St. Lucy’s Eyes
makes
off-Broadway premiere at the Cherry Lane Theater.
Miles Davis