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    Jazz Round’ Midnight: Soundtrack To My Life

    By Joy Lynn Clark 12/11/2017 Charlie Parker’s music is the soundtrack to my life; familiar and always playing in the background.  The memories run through my mind like scenes from a movie.  As I listened to, “Jazz Round Midnight”, and considered the history, these are my impressions. I was listening to Embraceable You when I started to do a search online.  My first hit was an article about a lost baby, a bottle, and a promise to come home.  Was he just trying to sleep?  I lost my connection right when I got to the part about the sculpture of a head.  Then I skimmed another review about Charlie Parker from a black…