History Detectives, on PBS, had a neat episode last night about a woman who owned a saxophone which her dad said he'd gotten from Charlie "Bird" Parker. The Detectives traced it back to find if the story was true. You can read the transcript of the show at this pdf file or go to www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/ and I think they have an archive of that segment.

It was really interesting, musically, with several film clips of him playing, etc.

FWIW,

kat