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Parker Definition

Par·ker (pär′kər)

  1. Parker, Charlie (c̸här′lē) (born Charles Christopher Parker, Jr.) 1920-55; U.S. jazz musician

  2. Parker, Dorothy (born Dorothy Rothschild) 1893-1967; U.S. writer

  3. Parker, Sir Gilbert (born Horatio Gilbert George Parker) 1862-1932; Cdn. novelist in England

  4. Parker, Theodore 1810-60; U.S. clergyman, social reformer, & abolitionist

Parker Quotes

Charlie Parker†always filled me with a kind of despair, because he played the way I would have liked to write, and this wasn't possible for me or anyone else. He made poetry seem word-bound.

—Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory)

When I first heard Charlie Parker, I said,'That's how our music should be played.'† After we got it together, yeah, I knew we were making something new. It was magic. Nobody on the planet was playing like that but us.

—Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks)