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Charlie Parker

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker was ...
PBS

Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere

A look at Charlie Parker’s life and legacy in Kansas City. Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting ...
NPR

Charlie Parker, on plastic sax, is one reason to hear concert's reissued recordings

Seventy years ago, jazz great Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at what many call the greatest jazz concert ever. A new deluxe reissue of that recording is out now. More than 70 years ago, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Long Journey of Charlie Parker’s Saxophone

American jazz musicians Charlie Parker, on alto sax, and Thelonious Monk, on piano, perform at the Open Door Cafe, in New York City on September 14, 1953. getty Images, Bob Parent / Contributor In ...