CD1: 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 ...

Parker and Gillespie's group makes one feel ... Fifty Second Street Theme; A Night In Tunisia; Dizzy Atmosphere; Groovin’ High; Confirmation; Koko; Blue ‘N’ Boogie; Anthropology; ‘Round Midnight; A ...

This two-disc set is beautifully packaged and contains informative liner notes culled from Savoy's Charlie Parker box set series, providing a textual background to such classics as "KoKo , ...

(SOUNDBITE OF CHARLIE PARKER'S "KOKO") TOM VITALE, BYLINE: In the 1940s, Charlie Parker helped shift the focus of jazz from the big bands to small combos, from dance music to complex music for ...

Saxophonist Charlie Parker ... including Parker’s tunes “Now’s The Time” and “Billie’s Bounce,” but a landmark moment occurred with “KoKo.” “Koko” was based, appropriately ...

Charlie Parker was born Aug. 29, 1920. On his birthday, we remember the jazz legend with a report that aired on Weekend Edition in August 2000. The man people called "Bird" was a brilliant ...

Charlie Parker is as mythic a figure as jazz has produced. His influence on the very form of the medium reconfigured the way music was approached in virtually all realms of practice. Yet, as Bird in ...