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They called him “Bird,” and when Charlie Parker took flight the cats bopped along for the next 70 years. The saxophone was an instrument of his soul, and through it he wove the deepest, most revolutionary threads of American fabric. From Kansas City to New York, from 18th and Vine to Arthur’s Tavern in the Village, from the nightclub stage to the heart of bebop itself. The man in the lights was the silhouette of cool.