BroadwayWorld

Charlie Parker 2026 Festival Will Return to Kansas City With Summer-Long Celebration

Charlie Parker 2026 will return to Kansas City with a summer-long festival celebrating the jazz icon’s legacy. The program ...

Kansas City to honor jazz legend Charlie Parker with summer-long concerts, tours, exhibits

Charlie Parker" is returning for its 14th year, bringing back a summer-long program dedicated to honoring the life and ...
The Brooklyn Paper

A valentine to jazz: Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and acclaimed saxophonist Vincent Herring bring ‘Charlie Parker with Strings’ to Brooklyn

Brooklyn music lovers are in for a special treat just in time for Valentine’s Day. For the first time ever, Brooklyn’s premier professional orchestra, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, is dedicating a ...
Jazz

Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Mary Lou Williams & Bennie Moten

In celebration of Con Chapman's 2023 book Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good, we spin a full-throttle hour of Kansas City jazz—saluting the sound, the swagger, and the city that helped ...
Jazz

Celebrating A Century Of Charlie Parker, Part 1

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 ...