Dave Chisholm's retelling of Bird's late 1940s California stay will be released in September. By Graeme McMillan Chasin’ The Bird, the comic book biography of jazz icon Charlie Parker Jr. (or Bird, as ...

Bebop pioneer Charlie Parker came to California in December, 1945 to play alto saxophone in trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's band at Billy Berg's Hollywood jazz club. Their reception was mixed, with many ...

Like music-biography movies (think Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman for two recent examples), comic music bios often get confused about what they are trying to accomplish. Even the fantastic-looking ...

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading ...

Dave Chisholm, the creator behind the acclaimed biography, will be part of a live-streamed discussion of Parker's time in California. By Graeme McMillan Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker in California ...

I went over and took his pulse. It was still there. Then it stopped. At the moment of his going, there was a tremendous clap of thunder. I didn't think about it at the time, but I've thought about it ...

Outside McCaw Hall, a lone saxophone player serenades arrivals with jazzy tunes. Inside, well-placed display boards boast of “Jazz’s Black History,” “Cultural Appropriation in Jazz” and the roots of ...

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, ...

Roy Haynes, who has died aged 99, was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and cymbal patterns that earned him the nickname of “Snap Crackle”; he played with ...

After a former mayor spent $144,000 of public money on the synthetic saxophone, it became the centerpiece of a Kansas City institution. A reissued recording of the instrument, played by our greatest ...

Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture. By Hank Shteamer An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a ...