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lonelysandwich:

Charlie Parker laughing at Coleman Hawkins’s attempt to do playback on his own recorded improvisation

This is the coolest thing ever. In one of two known pieces of footage of Bird performing, the music is pre-recorded and the band is supposed to be pantomiming along. But he clearly thinks it’s stupid and starts to laugh until someone off-camera tells him to stop and then just look at his face. Bird was too cool for this world.