The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and Kansas City Jazz ALIVE will celebrate Charlie Parker's birthday with Spotlight: Charlie ...

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. More ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — People from all over the world are still coming to Kansas City to pay their respects to one of the true giants of American jazz. It’s Charlie Parker, a jazz legend who went by the ...

Some legends took the stage Saturday for the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in Harlem.

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 ...

While it is undeniably true that formal education is generally a benefit both to the student and to society as a whole, it is equally indisputable that many jazz greats got their best education ...

It’s often difficult for those interested in testing jazz waters to know where to begin. The choices are overwhelming, especially for those who have yet to discover where their passions lie.

A statue of jazz artist, and Kansas City native, Charlie “Bird” Parker, done by artist, Robert Graham, stands at East 18th and Vine streets as a tribute to the famed saxophonist and the impact his ...

The jazz world celebrated the centennial of Charlie Parker's birth in 2020. Parker is one of the select few musicians who justify the term '"genius." He was unquestionably one the greatest improvisers ...