“Charlie’s practice sessions, or “woodshedding,” as it was called by jazzmen, took place at home. He rose early in the afternoon, around one o’clock. . . . After breakfast Charlie went upstairs to his room and drew the green shade of the window that looked out over the gardens and clotheslines of the Olive Street neighborhood. Then he removed his horn from its case and began to practice.”

—Ross Russell, from Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker, 1973.