Jazz

Charlie Parker: Bird in Time & Washington, DC, May 23, 1948

In the liner notes to Washington, DC, 1948, Ira Gitler reaffirms an assessment made in his 1966 classic The Masters of Bebop: "The period of 1947-48 was the zenith of Charlie Parker's career and the ...
Jazz

Bird in Time 1940-1947

CD 1: Charlie Parker Interview; Honeysuckle Rose/Body and Soul; I Got Rhythm; I Found A New Baby; Body And Soul; Moten Swing; Coquette; Oh Lady Be Good; Wichita Blues; Honeysuckle Rose; Max Roach ...
NPR

Charlie Parker, Born 100 Years Ago, Made Jazz Complexities Sound Deceptively Easy

More blues singer than Broadway, the Bird helped introduce bebop to jazz — and along the way redefined jazz velocity with his scrappy sound and pithy melodic figures. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry ...
The New York Times

Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig

How to celebrate the groundbreaking saxophonist — who died at 34 in 1955 — via books, albums, tributes and more. By Alan Scherstuhl Charlie Parker’s brief swing through this world kicked off a century ...