As part of the GRAMMY Museum’s Programs at Home series, Moderator Scott Goldman talks with GRAMMY-winning jazz bass player Christian McBride, renowned Kansas City jazz saxophonist Bobby Watson, Charlie Parker biographer Chuck Haddix, and writer/professor/artist Dave Chisholm, about the release of the new graphic novel Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker In California. The novel, written by Dave Chisholm and published by Z2 Comics in partnership with the Estate of Charlie Parker, is released as part of the celebration of Charlie Parker’s 100th anniversary in 2020, dubbed Bird 100. The graphic novel tells the story of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s time in L.A. starting in December 1945, where Bird and Dizzy Gillespie brought frenetic sounds of bebop from the East Coast jazz underground to the West Coast for a two-month residency at Billy Berg’s Hollywood jazz club. This marked the beginning of a tumultuous two year-stint for Bird bumming around L.A., showing up at jam sessions, crashing on people’s couches, causing havoc in public places, and recording some of his most groundbreaking tracks, “A Night in Tunisia” and “Ornithology,” as well as “Relaxin’ At Camarillo,” inspired by the end of his time in SoCal at the Camarillo State Hospital.