Mar 20, 2025 - Sale 2697

Sale 2697 - Lot 213

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Signed note by Charlie Parker. Autograph, 4½ x 5¼ inches, on sheet excised from an autograph album; minimal wear. No place, 5 November 1953
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This inscription reads "Nov. 5, 1953. Charlie Parker, Barbados." Parker was not in Barbados on 5 November 1953; he was performing at the University of Oregon. However, that day he performed his popular composition "Barbados," which may explain the inscription.

With an early printing of Parker's best-known composition, "Yardbird Suite," issued as part of the "Be-Bop Piano Solo Series: Bop Classics for Piano." The tune was composed and released in 1946. 5, [1] pages, 12 x 9 inches, on 2 sheets. New York: Capitol Songs, 1948.