Historical Figure
Chan Parker
1925–1999
Jazz enthusiast and common-law wife of saxophonist Charlie Parker (1925–1999)
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Biography
Chan Woods, was a common-law wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker. She later married musician Phil Woods.
Timeline
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Born Beverly Delores Berg in New York City. Her father produced vaudeville shows. Her mother danced in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. She adopted the name Chan Richardson and became a nightclub dancer.
Moved in with Charlie Parker on New York's Lower East Side. They never legally married because Parker hadn't ended a prior marriage. They had two children together, Baird and Pree.
Their daughter Pree died at two and a half from pneumonia related to a congenital heart defect.
Two years after Parker's death, married saxophonist Phil Woods and moved to France. She spent most of her remaining years there.
Died of cancer at 74 in Etampes, France. Her memoir My Life in E-Flat was published the same year.
Artifacts (15)
The portraits of Shakespeare (IA portraitsofshake00norr)
Norris, Joseph Parker, 1847-1916. [from old catalog]
The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Wills.
The portraits of Shakespeare (IA portraitsofshake00norrrich)
Norris, Joseph Parker, 1847-1916
National portrait exhibition - historical portraits (IA nationalportrait00arun)
Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art Thompson, Charles Thurston, 1818-1868, photographer
Modern agitators; or, Pen portraits of living American reformers (IA modernagitatorso02bart)
Bartlett, D. W. (David W.), 1828-1912
A catalogue of the very valuable collection of British portraits (IA catalogueofveryv00evan)
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777-1857
The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis (IA poemssacredpassi00willrich)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
The Windsor magazine - an illustrated monthly for men and women (IA acd6136.0030.001.umich.edu)
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by the Lithuanian government. Wałęsa is known for his conservative stance on LGBT rights. In 2013, he said on Polish television: "I do not wish for this minority, which I tolerate and understand, to...
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d Wałęsa agreed that mutual trust was necessary if the problems of Poland were to be solved. Wałęsa said "It's not the case that the name of socialism is bad. Only some people spoiled the name of...
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