- Inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, 1994.
- His instrumental recording, "Barbados" (featuring Miles Davis on trumpet) was #15 on Billboard Magazine's R&B charts in December 1948.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979.
- The lead character in Jim Jarmusch's first feature film, Permanent Vacation (1980) repeatedly says he wants to be "just like Charlie Parker".
- Along with trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie, he created the sporadic rhythms known as "be bop" in the 1950s.
- Is portrayed by Forest Whitaker in Bird (1988).
- Literary critic Harold Jack Bloom once wrote, "If God appeared in 19th Century America, it was as Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the 20th Century it would have been as Charlie Parker."
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