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Chronology of Coverage

  1. Oct. 11, 2013

    Dwight Garner reviews book Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch. MORE

  2. Mar. 31, 2011

    Daniel M Gold reviews New Federal Theater production of Bill Harris play Cool Blues, based on the life of jazz musician Charlie Parker, directed by Ed Smith and starring Marcus Naylor and Terria Joseph, at the Abrons Art Center. MORE

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Highlights from the Archives

Charlie Parker, Uptown and Down

Charlie Parker, Uptown and Down

By NATE CHINEN

In many ways, Charlie Parker, the subject of a festival this weekend, was the quintessential New York hero: a maverick and bon vivant, a subject of notoriety and myth.

August 24, 2007 artsReview

Bird Lives! The Birth Of Bebop, Captured On Disc

By FRED KAPLAN

It's an unlikely story, but the most stunning jazz discovery in a decade -- the Rosetta Stone of bebop -- was unearthed at an Elks Lodge in Chelmsford, Mass. The trove consisted of seven 12-inch acetate discs, on which was recorded a 40-minute concert by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker at Town Hall in New York on June 22, 1945.

July 31, 2005 artsNews

Bird Lives: Parker's Still In the Groove

By DAVID FIRESTONE

The hayloft on the flat, rich Georgia field here was swept away in 1987, transformed like so much of the state into a manufacturing plant with flagpoles, loading docks and endless blank walls. But when Paul W. Reid III takes a fragile acetate disc and puts it on a specially made turntable, a small room in the factory becomes the Harry Smith Studios across from Carnegie Hall on a September day in 1948. This was the actual disc that was used to record Charlie Parker that particular day, before the use of magnetic recording tape. Parker, at the height of his abilities, was playing ''Parker's Mood'' with Miles Davis, John Lewis, Curly Russell and Max Roach, and the fidelity of the ancient recording medium is astonishing.

May 10, 2000 artsNews

ARTICLES ABOUT CHARLIE PARKER

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Summer Salute to Charlie Parker

By A. C. LEE

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival shares his legacy on stages across Manhattan.

August 22, 2014, Friday
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Keeping Jazz's Rhythm With a Shutter

By ALEXANDRA AVAKIAN

Alexandra Avakian recalls her father, Aram, whose passions — photography and jazz — came together when he photographed the now-historic recording sessions of Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and others.

February 24, 2014, Monday

Be-Bopera: 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird' Coming From Opera Philadelphia

By ALLAN KOZINN

An opera about the jazz musician Charlie Parker has been commissioned by Opera Philadelphia.

January 30, 2014, Thursday

Bebop

By DAVID HAJDU

Two new biographies of the revered and influential saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker.

December 8, 2013, Sunday

When Bird Was a Fledgling

By DWIGHT GARNER

Stanley Crouch’s extended riff on Charlie Parker is less a standard biography and more an exploration of aesthetics and ideas, about America in the first half of the 20th century and black intellect and feeling.

October 11, 2013, Friday
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Popcast: Early Bird and 'Kansas City Lightning'

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Stanley Crouch discusses “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker,” his book about Parker’s early life and social world.

September 19, 2013, Thursday
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Charlie Parker, My Sister and Me

By HARVEY DICKSON

A new biography of the jazz great Charlie Parker fills in some blanks in his early years.

July 16, 2013, Tuesday
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August in New York, Time to Honor an Eternal Spirit

By BEN RATLIFF

The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival lineup included the drummer Roy Haynes, a former Parker associate; the bassist Derrick Hodge; and the singer Rene Marie at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.

August 26, 2012, Sunday

Robert Glasper Experiment: So Is It Jazz?

By NATE CHINEN

On a new album, "Black Radio," Mr. Glasper's group specializes in deep, immersive grooves, nourished as much by hip-hop and R&B; as any known species of jazz.

February 24, 2012, Friday

Jazzy New Leader for CUNY Biography Center

By PATRICIA COHEN

Gary Giddins is named acting executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography.

October 10, 2011, Monday
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