What A Good Score! – #14: Bird by Charlie Parker with Lennie Niehaus

The movie Bird was crucial for me – and so was its soundtrack – not technically ‘a score’ but I’d argue that it absolutely is, and that such a soundtrack is always the score when the film is a biopic of a musician. Bird tells (some of) the story of Charlie Parker and the music that fills the soundtrack/score is by Parker.

For me it was revelatory. A youn…