Filmmaker and jazz fan Clint Eastwood once made an unconventional, and underrated biopic about legendary jazz musician ...

AND THE JAZZ LEGACY. IT’S AN INSTRUMENT SYNONYMOUS WITH JAZZ. AND WHO PLAYED IT BETTER THAN KANSAS CITY JAZZ ICON, CHARLIE BIRD PARKER. >> CHARLIE PARKER INSPIRED CONSTRUCTION. REPORTER: SOON THE BIRD ...

Birdland Jazz Club in New York City stands as one of jazz’s true epicenters. It opened in 1949 and was named for the ...

The plastic Grafton alto saxophone that Charlie Parker played during a 1953 performance has returned to its place in the American Jazz Museum. Charlie Parker’s Grafton alto saxophone has returned to ...

A look at Charlie Parker’s life and legacy in Kansas City. Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting ...

If you’re not yet a fan of jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, spend a few minutes with UNC Charlotte professor Will Campbell. “His virtuosic approach to the saxophone was unmatched,” Campbell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden gems, with a focus on Kansas City’s communities of color. Send your ideas ...

Charlie “Bird” Parker has been called the greatest saxophonist who ever lived, a jazz legend who not only spearheaded the bebop movement but also laid the foundations of modern jazz. He was also a ...