‘Ode To A High Flying Bird,’ the bird being Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist. In 1961, twenty-year-old Charles Robert Watts was working as a full-time graphic designer and a part-time drumme ...

A woman owns a beautiful old alto saxophone that belonged to her father and according to family legend was once owned by the legendary jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker. Her late father ...

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And what a last concert it was, with Bird and Diz both there, along with Lester Young. (The Pres had not long been released from army service.) Charlie Parker’s appearance almost did not happen ...

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On his piano-backed jazz album with Steve Allen, he eulogises the formative bebop musician Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker. He describes descending into a dark, dingy, dive bar and having it bloom into ...

A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery curated by Ken Grant and Tracy Marshall Grant features over 140 works from the photographer’s career ...

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As bolting colored notes fly across the pages, along with high-flying birds that introduce another legendary musician: “Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, he’s the bird.” “So What,” with its ...

COVINGTON — Patricia Grace Kennon Bird Parker, 85, of Covington, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, at Alleghany Health and Rehabilitation, Clifton Forge. Patricia was born May 19, 1939, in Clifton Forge, ...