After 91 Years, New York Will Let Its People Boogie On Tuesday, the City Council is set to repeal the city’s Cabaret Law, a Prohibition-era rule that made it illegal to dance in most nightspots. By ANNIE CORREAL
Letter Charlie Parker’s Rules A music professor writes that the jazz musician exceeded the musical norms of his peers.
Op-Ed Contributor Charlie Parker and the Meaning of Freedom True liberation requires discipline, as he demonstrated in his music. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at the Apollo Hails a Bebop Giant An opera traces the life of the definitive bebop composer and saxophonist: his childhood, addictions, love life and collaborators. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
‘Yardbird’ Imagines a Ghostly Charlie Parker Encore This opera features the tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the role of the sax legend. By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter What to listen to when raising a glass to Archibald Motley, with thanks to our Drink columnist’s cousin, Phil Schaap. By ROSIE SCHAAP
ArtsBeat Charlie Parker Opera Will Go On The New York premiere of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” will go on, at the Apollo Theater in April, even after the closure of Gotham Chamber Opera, its original presenter.
The Mets, the Royals and Charlie Parker, Linked by Autumn in New York The World Series, set to resume at Citi Field, provides a reminder of baseball-loving jazz legends, like Parker, Count Basie and Lester Young, who moved from Kansas City to New York. By DAVID WALDSTEIN
The Art of Slow Vintage Sax Solo Improves With (Listener’s) Age A 1946 Dial jazz recording session with Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone strikes a mature ear differently than it did a young one. By NATE CHINEN
Lens Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh The Carnegie Museum of Art enlisted writers to reflect on the archives of the pioneering African-American photographer Charles (Teenie) Harris to better understand Pittsburgh today. By MAURICE BERGER
Weekend Miser Summer Salute to Charlie Parker The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival shares his legacy on stages across Manhattan.
Bebop Two new biographies of the revered and influential saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker. By DAVID HAJDU
Books of The Times When Bird Was a Fledgling 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. By DWIGHT GARNER
ArtsBeat Popcast: Early Bird and 'Kansas City Lightning' Stanley Crouch discusses “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker,” his book about Parker’s early life and social world. By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The 6th Floor Charlie Parker, My Sister and Me A new biography of the jazz great Charlie Parker fills in some blanks in his early years. By HARVEY DICKSON
ArtsBeat Jazzy New Leader for CUNY Biography Center The prize-winning author Gary Giddins has written biographies of Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Bing Crosby. Now he will help other writers recreate the lives of their chosen subjects as the new acting executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Among his many trophies Mr. Giddins can count a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association, and a Grammy.
Theater Review | 'Cool Blues' A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death “Cool Blues” is based on the last days of the jazz great Charlie Parker at the Fifth Avenue home of a faithful supporter and friend.
About New York Where a Bird Played Sax, Now Others Find Refuge A Manhattan row house once home to Charlie Parker, the jazz great known as “Bird,” the current occupant cares for pigeons and parrots.
After 91 Years, New York Will Let Its People Boogie On Tuesday, the City Council is set to repeal the city’s Cabaret Law, a Prohibition-era rule that made it illegal to dance in most nightspots. By ANNIE CORREAL
Letter Charlie Parker’s Rules A music professor writes that the jazz musician exceeded the musical norms of his peers.
Op-Ed Contributor Charlie Parker and the Meaning of Freedom True liberation requires discipline, as he demonstrated in his music. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at the Apollo Hails a Bebop Giant An opera traces the life of the definitive bebop composer and saxophonist: his childhood, addictions, love life and collaborators. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
‘Yardbird’ Imagines a Ghostly Charlie Parker Encore This opera features the tenor Lawrence Brownlee in the role of the sax legend. By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
A Playlist Fit for a Harlem Renaissance Painter What to listen to when raising a glass to Archibald Motley, with thanks to our Drink columnist’s cousin, Phil Schaap. By ROSIE SCHAAP
ArtsBeat Charlie Parker Opera Will Go On The New York premiere of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” will go on, at the Apollo Theater in April, even after the closure of Gotham Chamber Opera, its original presenter.
The Mets, the Royals and Charlie Parker, Linked by Autumn in New York The World Series, set to resume at Citi Field, provides a reminder of baseball-loving jazz legends, like Parker, Count Basie and Lester Young, who moved from Kansas City to New York. By DAVID WALDSTEIN
The Art of Slow Vintage Sax Solo Improves With (Listener’s) Age A 1946 Dial jazz recording session with Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone strikes a mature ear differently than it did a young one. By NATE CHINEN
Lens Past and Present Collide in Pittsburgh The Carnegie Museum of Art enlisted writers to reflect on the archives of the pioneering African-American photographer Charles (Teenie) Harris to better understand Pittsburgh today. By MAURICE BERGER
Weekend Miser Summer Salute to Charlie Parker The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival shares his legacy on stages across Manhattan.
Bebop Two new biographies of the revered and influential saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker. By DAVID HAJDU
Books of The Times When Bird Was a Fledgling 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. By DWIGHT GARNER
ArtsBeat Popcast: Early Bird and 'Kansas City Lightning' Stanley Crouch discusses “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker,” his book about Parker’s early life and social world. By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The 6th Floor Charlie Parker, My Sister and Me A new biography of the jazz great Charlie Parker fills in some blanks in his early years. By HARVEY DICKSON
ArtsBeat Jazzy New Leader for CUNY Biography Center The prize-winning author Gary Giddins has written biographies of Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Bing Crosby. Now he will help other writers recreate the lives of their chosen subjects as the new acting executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Among his many trophies Mr. Giddins can count a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Journalists Association, and a Grammy.
Theater Review | 'Cool Blues' A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death “Cool Blues” is based on the last days of the jazz great Charlie Parker at the Fifth Avenue home of a faithful supporter and friend.
About New York Where a Bird Played Sax, Now Others Find Refuge A Manhattan row house once home to Charlie Parker, the jazz great known as “Bird,” the current occupant cares for pigeons and parrots.
