Charlie Parker playing saxophone

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Caption: Charlie Parker playing saxophone
Description: Charlie Parker playing saxophone; facing the left of the photo and wearing a plaid shirt and corduroy pants.
Date Published: No date; likely 1940s
Subjects: African American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians
African American men
Saxophonists
Saxophone
People: Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955
Time Period: 1941-1950
Notes: No date; likely 1940s
Text in photo border: Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, subject of "Bird Lives!", a biography by Ross Russell. Charterhouse Books, Inc.
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Extent of Original: 1 photograph : black and white print ; 19 x 13 cm
Digital Collection: Jay McShann Collection
Filename: umkc_lsc_mcshann_photo-560.tif
Genres: Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Portrait photographs
Type: photographs
Repository: LaBudde Special Collections
Rights: All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections for more information.

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