Charlie Parker, aka “Bird”: jazz legend for a 4-star focus. American saxophonist, he is particularly known for having revolutionized the history of jazz by creating a new musical genre in the 1940s, bebop. Both a visionary and a virtuoso musician, he is an autodidact from the Middle West, and unanimously recognized as the greatest improviser in the history of jazz. During his short career, he put all his instrumental virtuosity at the service of a remarkable rhythmic, harmonic and melodic imagination. Focus on this musical phenomenon.