Chuck Haddix's more conventional and workmanlike Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker is ... centers on the bromance between Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, their association was ...

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

Charlie Parker (saxophonist) and Machito recorded the Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite album in 1950, and pianist George Shearing recorded Latin Escapade in 1956.

Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer who ignited the rhythmic fire on landmark performances by Charlie Parker ... led by saxophonist Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie — both of whom Mr. Haynes accompanied.

A masterful composer and a brilliant improviser, this record is a showcase of Lucky at his best, captured alongside Hank ...

Among the boycott’s principal victims were Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and their comrades, whose music was captured scantily and erratically in the period in which they were ...

THE post-war years of jazz were set alight by the explosion of bop: the astonishing new sounds of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and a host of disciples and ...