Charlie “Bird” Parker was one of the wonders of 20th-century music. During his troubled 34 years on earth, he changed the course of jazz history. Yet nothing is simple about the life of this ...

“The technical, physical and emotional demands are immense, because Charlie Parker lived a tumultuous life,” Bakari continued. “But he was also this genius whose music is still influencing ...

A moment between life and death is the entry point to Charlie Parker's story in the opera "Yardbird." He's the saxophonist who helped build the revolutionary, nonconforming mid-20th-century style ...

On his latest single, “Charlie Parker,” off his forthcoming album Eat The Worm, the multi-instrumentalist channeled the tragic life story of another music legend. Named after the late jazz ...

As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1994, Cleaver was huddled in a church basement with city officials and civic leaders nervously monitoring the auction of Charlie Parker memorabilia held by ...

Two years ago, a revelatory suite of Charlie Parker’s recordings ... Parker is the crucial hero of modern jazz, and, in his brief life (he died at thirty-four, in 1955), he was recorded ...