Off the cuff notes and thoughts on Bird, Part IV:Bird said, “Prez laughs when I tell him that I’m a fan of his and have been for years. I used to sit under a platform in Kansas City and listen for hours, because I loved the man. Prez would say, ‘You’re a fan of mine?’” —Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker, Robert Reisner"Bird never talked about music, except one time I heard him arguing with a classical musician friend of mine. He told the cat that you could do anything with chords. I disagreed, told him that you couldn’t play D natural on the fifth bar of a B flat blues. He said you could. One night later on at Birdland, I heard Lester Young do it, but he bent the note. Bird was there when it happened he just looked over at me with that 'I told you so' look that he would lay on you when he had proved you wrong." — Miles Davis, The Autobiography (with Quincy Troupe)When Bird came back to Kansas City from the Ozarks he had so grown musically that he began to get plen…
