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 ...

Charlie Parker's historic reverberations in Indianapolis Bird not only delivered iconic solos, he helped birth bebop in after-hours jams with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and other icons in the 1940s.

Sheila Jordan, who has died aged 96, was an acclaimed jazz singer and much-loved teacher who cut her teeth in the Bebop scene ...

K ANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - It’s a day of celebration and remembrance for Jazz legend Charlie Parker, as he would have turned ...

The players, the chords and the producers behind the breakneck bebop classic. The Story Of Charlie Parker's 'Ko Ko' Charlie Parker was born Aug. 29, 1920. On his birthday, we remember the jazz ...

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.

A bit of historical referencing came our way with "Donna Lee," "a bebop jazz standard attributed to Charlie Parker, although Miles Davis has also claimed authorship.

Listening to Charlie Parker’s saxophone gymnastics on a new album of rare recordings is like watching Simone Biles stretch during warmups. A new collection, “Bird in Kansas City,” captures ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra will open its new season on Saturday at the John Legend Theater with a tribute to the music of the bebop era including legends of the genre, Dizzy Gillespie ...

An undated picture of alto saxophonist and jazz composer Charlie Parker (1920-1955). He is considered by many to have been the father of the modern jazz style known as "bebop".