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Charlie Parker's plastic sax, a Kansas City treasure, is revived — and never sounded better
As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1994, Cleaver was huddled in a church basement with city officials and civic leaders nervously monitoring the auction of Charlie Parker memorabilia held by ...
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Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker: The tragic saxophone genius with a voracious appetite for drugs, hard liquor and jazz
Charlie “Bird” Parker was one of the wonders of 20th-century music. During his troubled 34 years on earth, he changed the course of jazz history. Yet nothing is simple about the life of this ...
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Parker Kligerman gives touching tribute to late Truck Series team owner Charlie Henderson
A sad day for Henderson Motorsports. Team owner Charlie Henderson has died. Parker Kligerman is among the many drivers ...
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Charlie Parker
The only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. When Parker was still a child, his family moved to ...
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Jonathan Wilson Channeled The Late ‘Charlie Parker’ On His Tragedy-Driven Single Off The Forthcoming Album ‘Eat The Worm’
On his latest single, “Charlie Parker,” off his forthcoming album Eat The Worm, the multi-instrumentalist channeled the tragic life story of another music legend. Named after the late jazz ...
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'NOW'S THE TIME: THE GENIUS OF CHARLIE PARKER #3' to Be Reissued On Vinyl
More than a century after his birth, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker is still universally revered as the most groundbreaking saxophonist of all time. And this truth is on full display in the classic ...
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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 ...
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The legendary jazz concert with Charlie Parker playing plastic sax has been reissued
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.
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Longtime NASCAR Truck team owner and Parker Kligerman’s boss, Charlie Henderson, passes away
Charlie Henderson, a longtime NASCAR Truck Series team owner and Parker Kligerman's boss, has passed away. The news came to light on Saturday, June 14, 2025, when his team announced the news on X.
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A New Way to Hear Some Revelatory Charlie Parker Bootlegs
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 ...
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop
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 ...