Charlie Parker - Wikipedia

Charles "Charlie" Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed " Bird" and "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker ...

Charlie Parker - Death, Songs & Bebop - Biography

22 Jun 2020 ... Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the musical style called bop or ...

Charlie Parker - All the things you are - YouTube

25 Jun 2008 ... Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr. (1920.08.29.-1955.03.12.) All The Things You Are.

A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Jazz | The ...

16 Jun 2011 ... A star guest in the rhythm section was Jo Jones, drummer for Count Basie's Orchestra, one of the biggest swing bands in the US. Charlie Parker ...

Charlie Parker - The Magnificent Charlie Parker [LP] - Amazon.com ...

... line-up of jazz greats including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Kenny Clarke and John Lewis Showcasing many of Parker's ...

Charlie Parker: celebrating a century of the genius who changed ...

28 Aug 2020 ... His audience knew him as “Yardbird”, or more usually, just “Bird”. The variety of sobriquets given to jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, who ...

The Life and Work of Charlie Parker | The New Yorker

1 Mar 1976 ... Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to a knockabout vaudevillian, Charles Parker, and a local girl, Addie Boyley. When he was seven or ...

Bird Lives! A Charlie Parker Centennial, With Strings Attached : NPR

28 Aug 2020 ... Charlie Parker, the incandescent avatar of modern jazz, didn't live to see 35. His centennial is upon us, and with it comes a chance to celebrate ...

Charlie Parker, the Birth of Bebop, and America's Greatest ...

24 Aug 2020 ... Colin Fleming re-examines November 26, 1945, when Charlie Parker led what is arguably the most monumental recording session in the ...

How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound and Substance of Bebop Jazz

29 Aug 2020 ... Parker was born and raised in Kansas City, where he began his career as a teen- ager. From his earliest successes to the end of his life, he was a ...

Charlie Parker — Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's ...

Charlie Parker | The Times & The Sunday Times

Results 1 - 20 of 545 ... Charlie Parker is a graduate trainee reporter at The Times. He has covered crime , culture, tech and diplomatic stories for the paper. Before ...

Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig - The New York ...

26 Aug 2020 ... Charlie Parker at 100: What to Read, Watch and Dig. How to celebrate the groundbreaking saxophonist — who died at 34 in 1955 — via books, ...

Charlie Parker's Yardbird - Seattle Opera

Charlie Parker has just passed away and while his body lies unidentified in the Bellevue morgue, his ghost appears at Birdland, the New York City jazz club ...

Opinion | Charlie Parker and the Meaning of Freedom - The New ...

29 Aug 2017 ... Those are the words of Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist also known as Bird, who was born on Aug. 29, 1920. Parker was arguably the ...

Charlie Parker | Charlie Parker Biography | American Masters | PBS

19 Oct 2003 ... At thirty-four, he was dead from years of drug and alcohol use. Today, Charlie “ Yardbird” Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators ...

POP VIEW; The Legendary, Lost Recordings Of Charlie Parker - The ...

23 Dec 1990 ... The cover, featuring a picture of a record player, and the title, "The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker," get right to the core ...

Charlie Parker - The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection (4-LP Box Set ...

Details One of the greatest jazz innovators of all time, alto saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker is one of the few musicians who can be said to have ...

Charlie Parker - The New York Times

News about Charlie Parker, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Charlie Parker | Biography, Music, & Facts | Britannica

1 Oct 2020 ... Charlie Parker, American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker ...