"Only the best die young"" -to how many musicians does this actually apply' To way too many: in Rock and Pop, Classical Music, and of course also in Jazz. Charlie ""Bird"" Parker is one of them: He was born in Kansas in 1920 and died in New York City in March 1955. He was not even 35 years old." Chi-Chi, Ah-Leu-Cha/Scrapple From the Apple, Ornithology, Embraceable You, My Little Suede Shoes, Confirmation, Yarbird Suite, Gipsy, Segment