Jazz guitarist George Freeman, a mainstay of Chicago’s music scene, died on April 1 at 97 – mere days before he was due to play a show in celebration of his 98th birthday. Coming from a family of ...

Mr. Freeman's guitar solos were throaty and daring and danced around the sax work of greats like Gene Ammons and Charlie Parker.

Saxophonist Charles Parker Jr., born August 29, 1920, nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird," was one of the architects of bebop, a ...

The most anticipated of the new books on Parker is Stanley Crouch's soulful, poetic and often graphic Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker. Covering Parker's early years ...

Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker, released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name of a 1995 compilation album released by Verve ...

Meet Charlie Parker (Vocal Version Of Ornithology); The Epitaph Of Charlie Parker (Vocal Version Of USA); Yardbird Suite (Vocal Version); So Long (Vocal Version Of K.C. Blues); Every Little Thing ...

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