Definition of "Bird"

When Bird played like that, it was like hearing music for the first time. I'd never heard anybody play like that. Later Sonny Rollins and I would try to do things like that, and me and Trane, those short, hard bursts of musical phrases. But when Bird played like that, he was outrageous…

2012, John Szwed, quoting Miles Davis, So What: The Life of Miles Davis‎, arrow books