What is Bird's most important album?

Question

If you had to choose one album out of all of Bird's production, which would you choose?

If that is difficult, how about who was Bird or why he was important to jazz?

Answer 1

There's a live album he and Dizzy did I believe it was Carnegie Hall. There's a version of Scrapple and How High the Moon, that was a pretty impressive performance, but Charles "Yardbird" Parker was The innovator. He took the chords out beyond the dominant 7th and bent everyone's perception who came after him. Everyone, not just horn players. Even drummers.
His influence is still heard today.