After Muddy Waters first heard himself sing on an acetone record that Alan Lomax mailed to him from the Library of Congress, he said he went straight to the Clarksdale, Mississippi Greyhound bus station and moved to Chicago to pursue music.

Where Charlie Parker got the name “Bird” is a mystery — In one famed story from The Reno Club in Kansas City, Drummer Jo Jones (no relation to “Philly” Jo Jones) threw a cymbal at teenage Charlie Parker’s feet when he poorly improvised a saxophone solo in the wrong key, causing him to fly like a bird.

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