That's sad. He was a really cool gentleman. RIP.

Sad as a marker that the door is closing on the 60s Rock survivors.  Everything I read about Charlie was indeed a cool gentleman.

Here's a very interesting interview with Charlie in 2012.  Gentleman Musician.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09t3b42

Thanks for the link, @clayton .  I haven't looked at it yet; I definitely will. So I may be duplicating what was said.  

But a lot of people don't know that Charlie's first love, musically speaking, was jazz, not rock.  I think all of his solo projects were jazz.

Tribute to Charlie Parker. 

And another "yes" Clayton.  On my morning news injection yesterday, the story stated that after any concert Mick and Keith would be off to, well, you know.  Charlie on the other hand was off to the hotel room to call his wife and daughter.  "indeed a cool gentleman".

Posted by: @matonanjin

But a lot of people don't know that Charlie's first love, musically speaking, was jazz, not rock.  I think all of his solo projects were jazz.

Ron, good that you mentioned the jazz. Charlie has always remained true to his roots.

And he admired very much (and I too) the German jazz, blues and boogie pianist Axel Zwingenberger with whom he had his own band from 2009 to 2012, called the «ABC&D of Boogie Woogie», during the time the Stones weren’t on tour.

They played more than 80 concerts together in Europe and in the USA and Charlie has said about his cooperation with Zwingenberger that playing in a stadium (with the Stones) was work and playing with Axel Zwingenberger has been vacation.

Birgit