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 ...

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 ...

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 ...