Is there a more iconic jazz artist that the man they called Bird? Musicians across all genres dream of being able to influence even a handful of wide eyed kids into following them, but Charlie Parker took his craft so much further. Personifying everything about the cult of the jazz musician as a cool intellectual, able to meld art to his soul and making it all look so effortless. Even if Charlie Parker had never played a note of music people would still have revered him, but the fact he was a musician without equal in his field only adds to the Charlie Parker legacy.