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Tomorrow, August, 29th is Charlie "Bird" Parker's birthday which always gets me thinkin about the "woulda-coulda" questions. I wrote a piece last year on that began something like this: I was was first introduced to Charlie "Bird" Parker on the corner of 55th and Madison Ave ...Since I got all my tunes for free, I sampled everything I could get my hands on from Dylan's Blonde on Blonde to Public Enemy's Greatest Misses LP and then there was the jazz catalogue which required some heavy lifting -- there was so much of it to ingest, I couldn't do it all in a couple of sittings, this was going to take some sort of syllabus,or so I thought...the LP BeBop & Bird is a tight intro to the sophonist here' the whole thing with a nice discography, etc...still,as always, Bird lives on...