This Friday marks the 94th anniversary of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker's birth. Parker, who was nicknamed Yardbird or Bird for short, invented a new jazz style in 1946 with Dizzy Gillespie and a ...

In yesterday's post, I looked at Ken Peplowski's new album, Unheard Bird, featuring arrangements for Charlie “Bird" Parker with strings that were never recorded by the alto saxophonist. The natural ...

Ken Peplowski leads a masterful quartet and orchestra in a celebration of Charlie Parker's landmark work, "Bird with Strings," featuring unheard arrangements. Joining him is special guest Eric ...

What should have been one of the biggest centennial celebrations in jazz history — the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Parker was in 2020 — was, alas, ruined by the pandemic. Still, for ...

Andrew Speight had been playing alto saxophone for a couple of years when, at age 12 1/2, he first listened to one of his father's Charlie Parker albums at their home in Sydney. The experience changed ...