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I love guys like Charlie Parker.
Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.
