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The Children of Eve' will undoubtedly hook die-hard Parker fans and leave them eagerly asking what’s next for their favourite ...
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Clint Eastwood's Jazz Secrets: Improvise Like Bird!
This video clip, taken from the feature documentary "Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso", delves into Clint Eastwood's passion for music, particularly Charlie Parker's influence, and how ...
and Charlie Parker fell through a music warp while playing “Cherokee” in a jam session. But it found its form and flourished in the nineteen-forties, and it’s Parker, whose centenary falls ...
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 of the 20th century. A father of bebop ...
Two years ago, a revelatory suite of Charlie Parker’s recordings, made between 1945 and 1952, was released as a two-CD set, titled “Bird in L.A.” Now this collection of concert and radio ...
In December 1945, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker made history by bringing the frenetic sounds of bebop—then primarily an underground scene for in-the-know musicians—from the East to the ...
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five ...
You get a fabulous day in Marcus Garvey Park. It was the 32nd annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, a three-day tradition for jazz lovers to pay tribute to one of the greatest saxophonists of all time.
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