Charlie 'Bird' Parker: The tragic saxophone genius with a voracious appetite for drugs, hard liquor and jazz, The Independent

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The extraordinary musician lived a short and deeply troubled life, writes Martin Chilton. But as time has passed, it is his playing that is remembered, not his wayward ways

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Why have most of the great jazz musicians used drugs and alcohol, like Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and others? Is there any relation between drug abuse and alcoholism and jazz