While you’re reading, listen to our Bebop Jazz playlist here ... (By this time, bebop’s king, Charlie Parker, was dead, having passed away in 1955, aged 34). Moment's Notice (Remastered ...

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Continuing to play with The Gene Krupa Trio, he cut “Dark Eyes,” which led to over a dozen released albums, including “Charlie Ventura With Special Guest Charlie Parker”(1949) “Bop For The ...

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This is a great month for Irish crime fiction, with more strong releases than one column can fit, including titles by Jane Casey, John Connolly and Catherine Ryan Howard. In Jane Casey’s The ...

Hi, I am Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Saxophonist Charles Parker Jr., born August 29, 1920, nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird," was one of the architects of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by ...

Bird [Charlie Parker's nickname] had a heart of gold, and he could play anything. “I had been playing standards and dances, no problem. But when he called out that song, I got nervous.

For seventeen years he was the lead soloist in the most commercially successful jazz combo ever, the Dave Brubeck Quartet. In an era that worshipped the frenetic, bebop style of Charlie Parker, Paul ...

New Jersey’s storied WFMU is not just another independent radio station. It’s a rejection of algorithm-driven playlists and a ...

Following a gig at Birdland with Charlie Parker, Navarro was hospitalized on July 1, 1950, and, before the week was out, he was dead. The Mississippi riverboat that the 20-year-old Louis Armstrong ...

Parker-Hannifin Corporation manufactures and sells motion and control technologies and systems for various mobile, industrial, and aerospace markets worldwide. The company operates through two ...