Skutečný příběh Charlie Parkera. Snad všichni jazzoví hudebníci a ctitelé jazzu se shodli na tom, že altsaxofonista Ch. Parker (1920–1955) byl génius. Americký hudební dokument není pouze svědectvím o jeho obdivuhodné hudbě, ale především o jeho tragicky krátkém životě. Smutnou roli v tomto dramatu sehrál heroin. Heroin bude vždycky hrát tragickou roli. Vy, a nejen vy, kteří jste v ČT sledovali hraný film Clinta Eastwooda Bird, to dobře víte.
Zdroj: Česká televize
Réžia: Robert B. Weide, David Heeley, Allan Miller, Barbara Leibovitz, DeWitt Sage, Karen Goodman, Perry Miller Adato, Mel Stuart, Elise Robertson, Tony Palmer, Kenneth Bowser, Charles Atlas, Terry Carter, Chuck Workman, Martin Scorsese, Doug Hamilton, Morg
Scénar: Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Bowser, Chuck Workman, Todd McCarthy, Eugene Corr, A. Scott Berg
Výrobné spoločnosti: Thirteen / WNET, 1515 Productions Limited, American Masters Pictures
Kamera: Denis Maloney, Kramer Morgenthau, Sandi Sissel, Robert Richman, Jon Else, Mustapha Barat, Peter Stein, Uta Briesewitz, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Gra
Hudba: Richard Einhorn, Sheldon Mirowitz, Michael Galasso, Peter Nashel, Neal Evans, Paul Brill
Hrajú: Lee Grant, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Schickel, Jack Lemmon, Eli Wallach, James Dean, Abiola Abrams, Ray Charles, Hugh M. Hefner, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gene Hackman, S. Epatha Merkerson, Peter Coyote, Harvey Keitel, Yoko Ono, Paul Newman, CCH Pounder, Aretha Franklin, Betty White, Peggy Cartwright, Cesar Romero, Peggy Lipton, John Cage, Dylan McDermott, Jeff Beck, Oliver Platt, James Brown, Bert Lahr, Lily Tomlin, James Garner, Clarke Peters, Bill Strother, James MacArthur, June Havoc, Alexis Smith, Pat Boone, Tony Martin, Ty Jones, Laurie Anderson, Lennie Niehaus, Mary Martin, Signe Hasso, Martha Graham, James Taylor, Fielder Cook, Janis Paige, Earl Holliman, Pete Seeger, Eartha Kitt, Rosemary Clooney, Patricia Morison, Billy Joel, Ben Vereen, Arthur Penn, Turhan Bey, Edie Adams, Eddie Vedder, Michael Wright, Eric Schlosser, William Goldman, Terry Southern, Nicholas Pileggi, Joan Baez, Jay Cocks, Don Gordon, Zoe Caldwell, George Clayton Johnson, I.A.L. Diamond, Reed Birney, Jen Drohan, Dionne Warwick, Bill Irwin, Phyllis Diller, Adolf Hitler, Šimon Peres, Harry Carey Jr., Neil Hamilton, Daniel J. Boorstin, Neil Simon, Larry David, Harry James, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman, Jesse Jackson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Anne Jackson, Molly Schreiber, Amiri Baraka, Pippa Scott, Miriam Makeba, William Bakewell, Oscar Peterson, Gypsy Rose Lee (a.z.), Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Davalos (a.z.), Douglas Fowley (a.z.), Minta Durfee (a.z.), Jackson Browne, Billy Gibbons, D.A. Pennebaker, Willie Fung (a.z.), Mary Doran (a.z.), Lyle Waggoner, Benson Fong, Henry Kolker (a.z.), Vernon Reid, Dalton Trumbo (a.z.), Jools Holland, Michael Medeiros, Josephine Dunn (a.z.), Arthur Hohl (a.z.), Robert Benchley, Chris Evert, Hunter S. Thompson (a.z.), Jimmy Connors, Maria Šarapovová, Billie Jean King, Caroline Wozniacki, Chris Spedding, Michael Pollan, Tony Benn, Suzanne Vega, Robbie Robertson, Eileen Bowser, Edna Ferber (a.z.), Bonnie Raitt, Joe Frazier (a.z.), Bryan Ferry, Elizabeth Marvel, Scotty Moore, D. J. Fontana, Christopher Stamp (a.z.), George Robey (a.z.), Priscilla Bonner, Peter Sellars, John Henry Cox, Jean Howard (a.z.), Barbara Walters, Sammy White (a.z.), Eric Andersen, Frank O. Gehry, Carlton Griffin (a.z.), Ahmet Ertegun, Christopher Hitchens, Daniela Piazza, Michael Feinstein, Paul Whiteman (a.z.), Omara Portuondo, Robert Harron (a.z.), Jerome Kern (a.z.), Eugenie Besserer (a.z.), Ernest Cossart (a.z.), James Mitchell, Frances Foster, Steve Allen (a.z.), Sarah Vaughan, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Norman Steinberg, Richie Sambora, Martha Tilton, Ann Christy (a.z.), Raymond Walburn (a.z.), Tony Mordente, Eliot Feld, David Fricke, Jane Novak, David Margulies, Monte Hale (a.z.), Joel Fabiani, Portelli Paul, Peter Martins, Anna Wintour, Tommy Hilfiger, Kathleen Nolan (a.z.), Cliff Arquette (a.z.), Ole Olsen (a.z.), Chic Johnson (a.z.), Eric Christmas, Anderson Cooper, Betty Garrett, Whitney Houston, William Styron, August Wilson (a.z.), Harold Goodwin (a.z.), Dale Soules, Alice Waters, George Morfogen, Dina Eastwood, Dani Janssen, Molly Picon (a.z.), Joe DiMaggio (a.z.), Juanita Hall (a.z.), Ed Sanders, Joseph Buloff (a.z.), Deepak Chopra, A. Scott Berg, Yo-Yo Ma, Artie Shaw, Bob Gruen, William T. Orr (a.z.), Steve Wozniak, Jacques Chirac, Johnny Mathis, Ed Ames (a.z.), Mitch Mitchell (a.z.), Kitty Carlisle, Doris Singleton, Carole King, Arthur Housman (a.z.), Michelle Joyner, Morey Amsterdam, Henry Louis Gates, Wynton Marsalis, Mae Marsh (a.z.), Stephen Tenenbaum, Robin Hughes (a.z.), Ralph Lauren, Gore Vidal (herec, a.z.), Sherry Goffin Kondor, Charles Larkey, Toni Stern, Russ Kunkel, Hank Cicalo, Patrick Adiarte, Thelma Carpenter, Roy Stewart (a.z.), Frank Fay (a.z.), Darren Pettie, Uta Hagen, Constantine Romanoff (a.z.), Harvey Parry, Tom Hayden, Charles Stevenson (a.z.), Miranda Lambert, Roy Blount Jr., Josephine Crowell (a.z.), Bert Granet, Sidney Lumet, Robert Nichols (a.z.), Carl Perkins (a.z.), Luise Rainer, Gary Crosby (a.z.), Sarah Marshall (a.z.), Molly Haskell, Louis B. Mayer (a.z.), Sam Warner (a.z.), Harry M. Warner (a.z.), Albert Warner (a.z.), Leland Sklar, Evelyn Baldwin, Cat Power, Josip Elic (a.z.), Daniel Gerroll, Jon Hamm (rozprávač), Jacques d'Amboise, Joey Faye, Jerry Colonna (a.z.), Afrika Bambaataa, Arnold Schönberg (a.z.), Maria Shriver, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ellen Adair, Nat Hentoff, Caroline Clay, Gloria Allred, Joseph McBride, Leonard Maltin, Zora Neale Hurston (a.z.), F.X. Feeney, Country Joe McDonald, Robert Cray, Elizabeth Holmes, Isaac Stern, Malachy Cleary, Jeff Koons, Lane Bradbury, Stan Kenton (a.z.), Joe Williams, Loring Mandel, Elliot Roberts, Fiorello LaGuardia (a.z.), Jack Pepper (a.z.), Heidi Schooler, Edward James Hyland, The Beatles (a.z.), George Stevens Jr., Harold Clurman, Robert Stevenson (a.z.), Maggie Quigley, Joseph I. Breen (a.z.), Alan Brennert, Soon-Yi Previn, Gary Snyder, Gene Vincent (a.z.), Joseph M. Schenck (a.z.)