Seventy years ago, Charlie Parker and four other be-bop legends created what many call the greatest jazz concert ever— with Parker playing a plastic saxophone. A reissue of the recording is out. More ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and Kansas City Jazz ALIVE will celebrate Charlie Parker's birthday with Spotlight: Charlie Parker ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — People from all over the world are still coming to Kansas City to pay their respects to one of the true giants of American jazz. It’s Charlie Parker, a jazz legend who went by the ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. rom the mid-1800s, New York City parks have played host to free summer concerts. In 1986 the ...

After a former mayor spent $144,000 of public money on the synthetic saxophone, it became the centerpiece of a Kansas City institution. A reissued recording of the instrument, played by our greatest ...

“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But man, there’s no boundary line to art.” Those are the words of Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist also known as Bird, who was born on Aug. 29, ...

Here are the musicians on the session: Junior Collins (fhr); Al Block (fl); Hal McKusick (cl); Tom Mace (oboe); Mannie Thaler (bassoon); Charlie Parker (as); Tony Aless (p); Charles Mingus (b); Max ...

While it is undeniably true that formal education is generally a benefit both to the student and to society as a whole, it is equally indisputable that many jazz greats got their best education ...