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* [[Iconic Item]]: After [[Ornette Coleman]] he's the best known user of a plastic Grafton sax.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Nobody doubted his abilities, but a few bandleaders were irritated by his tendency to show up late for gigs without an instrument.
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* [[Training From Hell]]: Bird wasn't a natural savant for music like, say, Mozart. When he was young, from his reports, he was a horrible saxophonist who got laughed off the bandstand (on one occasion the drummer threw his cymbals at him to drive him off the stage). He achieved his greatness by practicing for fourteen hours a day for years.
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