Editing Charlie Parker (section)

==Recognition==

===Awards===
[[File:XBird Lives by Robert Graham.jpg|thumb|upright|"Bird Lives" sculpture by [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] in Kansas City, Missouri]]

'''Grammy Award'''
{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | [[Grammy Award]] history<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828211949/https://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=charlie+parker&field_nominee_work_value=&year=1974&genre=All&=Search |url-status=dead |title=Awards Nominations & Winners |date=April 30, 2017 |archive-date=August 28, 2015 |website=Grammy.com}}</ref>
|-
! Year
! Category
! Title
! Genre
! Label
! Result
|-
| 1974
| Best Performance by a Soloist
| ''First Recordings!''
| Jazz
| Onyx
| Winner
|}

'''Grammy Hall of Fame'''

Recordings of Charlie Parker were inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]], which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance".

{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | Grammy Hall of Fame Awards<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626200735/https://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |url-status=dead |title=Grammy Hall of Fame Database |archive-date=June 26, 2015}}</ref>
|-
! Year recorded
! Title
! Genre
! Label
! Year inducted
|-
| 1945
| "[[Billie's Bounce]]"
| Jazz (Single)
| Savoy
| 2002
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Jazz at Massey Hall]]''
| Jazz (Album)
| Debut
| 1995
|-
| 1946
| "[[Ornithology (composition)|Ornithology]]"
| Jazz (Single)
| Dial
| 1989
|-
| 1950
| ''[[Charlie Parker with Strings]]''
| Jazz (Album)
| Mercury
| 1988
|}

'''Inductions'''
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year inducted
! Title
|-
| 2004
| [[Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame|Jazz at Lincoln Center: Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame]]
|-
| 1984
| [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]]
|-
| 1979
| [[Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame]]
|}

===Government honors===
In 1995, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] issued a 32-cent commemorative postage stamp in Parker's honor.<ref>{{cite web |author=Richard Tucker |url=http://esperstamps.org/aa36.htm |title=Charlie Parker: 32 cents Commemorative stamp |publisher=Esperstamps.org |access-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719230131/http://esperstamps.org/aa36.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

In 2002, the [[Library of Congress]] honored his recording "[[Ko-Ko]]" (1945) by adding it to the [[List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry|National Recording Registry]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Komara |first=Ed |date=2002 |title="Ko Ko"-- Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and others (1945) |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/ko-ko.pdf |access-date= |work=Library of Congress}}</ref>

===Charlie Parker residence===
{{Infobox NRHP
| name                     = Charlie Parker Residence
| nrhp_type                = nrhp
| image                    = Charlie Parker Residence 151 Avenue B.jpg
| caption                  = 151 Avenue B in 2011
| locmapin                 = New York City
| coordinates              = {{coord|40|43|36|N|73|58|50|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark_dim:5km|display=inline}}
| location                 = 151 Avenue B<br />Manhattan, New York City
| built                    = circa 1849
| architecture             = [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]
| added                    = April 7, 1994<ref>[http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregsearchresult.do?fullresult=true&recordid=62 "Parker, Charlie, Residence"] on the NRHP database</ref>
| designated_nrhp_type     = April 7, 1994
| refnum                   = 94000262
| designated_other2_name   = NYC Landmark
| designated_other2_date   = May 18, 1999<ref name=desrep>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1999CharlieParkerResidence.pdf|title=Charlie Parker Residence Designation Report|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|archive-date=May 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512041407/http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1999CharlieParkerResidence.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| designated_other2_abbr   = NYCL
| designated_other2_link   = New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
| designated_other2_number =
| designated_other2_color  = #ff0000
}}
From 1950 to 1954, Parker lived with Chan Berg on the ground floor of the townhouse at 151 Avenue B, across from [[Tompkins Square Park]] in Manhattan's [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]]. The [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] building, which was built about 1849,<ref name=nycland>{{cite nycland}}, p. 69</ref> was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1994<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.charlieparkerresidence.net/ |title=Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Residence, NYC |publisher=Charlieparkerresidence.net |access-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719221914/https://charlieparkerresidence.net/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was designated a [[List of New York City Landmarks|New York City landmark]] in 1999. Avenue B between East 9th and East 10th Streets was given the honorary designation "Charlie Parker Place" in 1992.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

===Musical tributes===
* [[Jack Kerouac]]'s spoken poem "Charlie Parker" to backing piano by [[Steve Allen]] on ''[[Poetry for the Beat Generation]]'' (1959){{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 2014, saxophonist and bandleader [[Aaron M. Johnson|Aaron Johnson]] produced historically accurate recreations of the ''Charlie Parker with Strings'' albums.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reverbnation.com/aaronjohnson2|title=Aaron Johnson|publisher=[[ReverbNation]]}}</ref>
* [[Lennie Tristano]]'s overdubbed solo piano piece "Requiem" was recorded in tribute to Parker shortly after his death.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* American composer [[Moondog]] wrote his famous "Bird's Lament" in his memory; published on the 1969 album ''[[Moondog (1969 album)|Moondog]]''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* Since 1972, the Californian ensemble [[Supersax]] harmonized many of Parker's improvisations for a five-piece saxophone section.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 1973, guitarist [[Joe Pass]] released his album ''[[I Remember Charlie Parker]]'' in Parker's honor.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-remember-charlie-parker-mw0000691113 | title=Joe Pass: I Remember Charlie Parker | publisher=[[AllMusic]].com | access-date=July 1, 2016 | author=Yanow, Scott| author-link=Scott Yanow }}</ref>
* [[Weather Report]]'s jazz fusion track and highly acclaimed big band standard "[[Birdland (Weather Report song)|Birdland]]", from the ''[[Heavy Weather (album)|Heavy Weather]]'' album (1977), was a dedication by bandleader [[Joe Zawinul]] to both Charlie Parker and the New York 52nd Street club itself.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The biographical song "Parker's Band" was recorded by [[Steely Dan]] on its 1974 album ''[[Pretzel Logic]]''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* Avant-garde jazz trombonist [[George E. Lewis]] recorded ''Homage to Charles Parker'' (1979).{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The opera ''[[Charlie Parker's Yardbird]]'' by [[Daniel Schnyder]], [[libretto]] by Bridgette A. Wimberly, was premiered by [[Opera Philadelphia]] on June 5, 2015, with [[Lawrence Brownlee]] in the title role.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/on-stage-2014-2015/charlie-parkers-yardbird/|title=Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD – Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD|first=Opera|last=Philadelphia|website=Opera Philadelphia}}</ref>
* The name of British 1960s blues-rock band [[The Yardbirds]] was at least partially inspired by Parker's nickname.<ref>Wall, M., "[https://www.loudersound.com/features/fantastically-flash-inscrutably-cool-how-the-yardbirds-shaped-rocknroll Fantastically flash, inscrutably cool: How the Yardbirds shaped rock'n'roll]," ''Loudersound.com'', January 2, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2019.</ref>
* [[Charles Mingus]]' song "Reincarnation of a Lovebird"{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 1993, [[Anthony Braxton]] recorded a 2-CD album titled ''[[Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project 1993|Charlie Parker Project]]'', released in 1995. This material was re-released in 2018 as part of an 11-CD set titled ''Sextet (Parker) 1993''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Braxton-Sextet-Parker-1993/release/11868220 |title=Anthony Braxton – Sextet (Parker) 1993 |website=discogs.com |date=March 2, 2018 |access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref>

===Other tributes===
* In 1949, the New York night club [[Birdland (jazz club)|Birdland]] was named in his honor. Three years later, [[George Shearing]] wrote "[[Lullaby of Birdland]]", named for both Parker and the nightclub.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The 1957 short story "Sonny's Blues" by [[James Baldwin]] features a jazz/blues playing virtuoso who names Bird as the "greatest" jazz musician, whose style he hopes to emulate.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 1959, Jack Kerouac completed his only full-length poetry work, ''[[Mexico City Blues]]'', with two poems about Parker's  importance, writing in those works that Parker's contribution to music was comparable to [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mexico City Blues|url=https://archive.org/details/mexicocityblues00kero|url-access=registration|author=Jack Kerouac|publisher=Grove Weidenfeld|year=1990|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mexicocityblues00kero/page/242 242–243]|isbn=9780802130600}}</ref>
* The 1959 Beat comedy album ''[[How to Speak Hip]]'',  by comedians [[Del Close]] and [[John Brent (comedian)|John Brent]], lists the three top most "uncool" actions (both in the audio and in the liner notes) as follows: "It is uncool to claim that you used to room with Bird. It is uncool to claim that you have Bird's [[wikt:axe#Etymology 1|axe]]. It is even less cool to ask 'Who is Bird?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iotaillustration.posterous.com/how-to-speak-hip-mercury-records-1959|title='How to Speak Hip' – Mercury Records 1959|publisher=Iotaillustration.posterous.com|date=January 7, 2011|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=April 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415181609/http://iotaillustration.posterous.com/how-to-speak-hip-mercury-records-1959|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* A memorial to Parker was dedicated in 1999 in Kansas City at 17th Terrace and The Paseo, near the [[American Jazz Museum]] located at 18th and Vine, featuring a {{convert|10|ft|m|0|adj=on}} tall bronze head sculpted by [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The [[Charlie Parker Jazz Festival]] is a free two-day music festival that takes place every summer on the last weekend of August in Manhattan, New York City, at [[Marcus Garvey Park]] in Harlem and [[Tompkins Square Park]] in the Lower East Side, sponsored by the non-profit organization [[City Parks Foundation]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The [[Annual Charlie Parker Celebration]] is an annual festival held in Kansas City, Kansas since 2014. It is held for 10 days and celebrates all aspects of Parker, from live jazz music and bootcamps, to tours of his haunts in the city, to exhibits at the American Jazz Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/2nd-annual-charlie-parker-celebration-begins-thursday-in-kansas-city|title=2nd annual Charlie Parker Celebration begins Thursday in Kansas City|publisher=KSHB|date=August 20, 2015|access-date=February 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211081219/http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/2nd-annual-charlie-parker-celebration-begins-thursday-in-kansas-city|archive-date=February 11, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In the short-story collection ''Las armas secretas'' (''The Secret Weapons''), [[Julio Cortázar]] dedicated "El perseguidor" ("The Pursuer") to Charlie Parker. This story examines the last days of a drug-addicted saxophonist through the eyes of his biographer.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 1981, jazz historian [[Phil Schaap]] began to host ''Bird Flight'', a radio show on WKCR New York dedicated entirely to Parker's music.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=September 8, 2021|title=Phil Schaap, Grammy-Winning Jazz D.J. and Historian, Dies at 70|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/arts/music/phil-schaap-dead.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/arts/music/phil-schaap-dead.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited|access-date=September 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The program continues to be broadcast on WKCR in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|last=Page|first=Tim|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/phil-schaap-dead/2021/09/08/a5267226-10a2-11ec-bc8a-8d9a5b534194_story.html|title=Phil Schaap, jazz scholar, historian and broadcaster, dies at 70|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 8, 2021|access-date=September 9, 2021}}</ref>
* In 1984, modern dance choreographer [[Alvin Ailey]] created the piece ''For Bird – With Love'' in honor of Parker. The piece chronicles his life from his early career to his failing health.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* A biographical film called ''[[Bird (1988 film)|Bird]]'', starring [[Forest Whitaker]] as Parker and directed by [[Clint Eastwood]], was released in 1988.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* In 1999 the Spanish metal band [[Saratoga (band)|Saratoga]] created the song ''Charlie se Fue'' in honor of Charlie Parker, for the album ''Vientos de Guerra''.
* In 2005, the [[Henri Selmer Paris|Selmer]] Paris saxophone manufacturer commissioned a special "Tribute to Bird"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.connselmer.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209103455/http://www.selmer.com/content/article.php?id=90|url-status=dead|title=Conn Selmer Homepage|archivedate=February 9, 2012|website=www.connselmer.com|accessdate=August 4, 2024}}</ref> alto saxophone, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Parker's death (1955–2005).
* Parker's performances of "I Remember You" (recorded for [[Clef Records]] in 1953, with the Charlie Parker Quartet, comprising Parker on alto sax, [[Al Haig]] on piano, [[Percy Heath]] on bass, and Max Roach on drums) and "[[Parker's Mood]]" (recorded for the Savoy label in 1948, with Parker on alto sax, [[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]] on piano, [[Curley Russell]] on bass, and Max Roach on drums) were selected by literary critic [[Harold Bloom]] for inclusion on his shortlist of the "twentieth-century American Sublime", the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century. A vocalese version of "Parker's Mood" was a popular success for [[King Pleasure]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]] created many paintings to honor Charlie Parker, including ''[[Charles the First (1982 painting)|Charles the First]]'', ''CPRKR'', ''[[Bird on Money]]'', ''[https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/PF1/PF1205/169PF1205_3PFXW_1.jpg Bird of Paradise] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514221719/https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/PF1/PF1205/169PF1205_3PFXW_1.jpg |date=May 14, 2021 }}'', and ''Discography I''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* [[Charlie Watts]], drummer for [[the Rolling Stones]], wrote a children's book entitled ''Ode to a High Flying Bird'' as a tribute to Parker. Watts has cited Parker as a large influence on his life when he was a boy learning jazz.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* The 2014 film ''[[Whiplash (2014 film)|Whiplash]]'' repeatedly refers to the 1937 incident at the Reno Club, changing the aim point of the cymbals to his head and pointing to it as evidence that genius is not born but made by relentless practice and pitiless peers.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* Parker is referenced in the 2023 video game ''[[Marvel's Spider-Man 2]]''. In the game, there is a side mission in which Parker's Saxophone is stolen and must be recovered by [[Alternative versions of Spider-Man #Insomniac's Miles Morales|Miles Morales / Spider-Man]]. Once recovered, a character discusses Parker's music, making reference to his song, "Ornithology", and discussing his impact on jazz and hip hop.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
* Parker is mentioned in the comic strip [[The Far Side]] and Gary Larson invites his audience to find amusement in what he perceives as Parker's disdain for introspective or slow-moving [[New Age]] music; implying that the legendary saxophonist would find it "hellishly" insipid.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}