A hundred years ago, on August 29, 1920, soon after jazz was born, Charlie Parker came into this world, and in the 35 years of a life cut short by addictions and impulse-driven living, he changed the ...

In 1952, bluesman Bull Moose Jackson recorded a suggestive song called “Big Ten Inch Record,” which became a hit on so-called race radio stations of the day that catered to black audiences throughout ...

Charlie Parker AKA Yardbird AKA Bird passed away 60 years ago today, on March 12th, 1955. The legendary jazz saxophonist, bandleader and architect of be-bop was reportedly watching TV in the hotel ...

History remembers (and misremembers) the greats of human achievement. They are celebrated, critiqued, deemed over-rated, deemed under-rated, interpreted, and reinterpreted through myriad forms of ...

The alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, the subject of Bird, a new film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, assured himself of immortality when he recorded "Ko Ko" for Savoy Records, on November 26, ...

His audience knew him as “Yardbird”, or more usually, just “Bird”. The variety of sobriquets given to jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, who would have turned 100 on 29 August 2020, is indicative ...

On the 100th anniversary of Charlie Parker's birth - August 29, 2020 - it is impossible to imagine the evolution of jazz and modern music in general without the indelible influence of one of the most ...

A statue of jazz artist, and Kansas City native, Charlie “Bird” Parker, done by artist, Robert Graham, stands at East 18th and Vine streets as a tribute to the famed saxophonist and the impact his ...

The influential jazz musician's Californian experience, which lasted from 1945 through 1947 and helped create some of his greatest music, will be the subject of a new book from Z2 Comics. By Graeme ...

Dave Chisholm, the creator behind the acclaimed biography, will be part of a live-streamed discussion of Parker's time in California. By Graeme McMillan Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker in California ...

It’s been 100 years since jazz legend Charlie Parker was born. Nicknamed “Bird,” Parker began playing the alto saxophone as a youth, eventually setting the music world ablaze with his penetrating ...