Charlie "Bird" Parker was a peerless musician who needs no further introduction. Despite his vast discography, there are few good-sounding recordings where the majority of the tunes run any more than ...

In jazz and in enterprise, jam sessions are designed to foster novel insights and accelerate learning. Jazz players engage in active experimentation, follow hunches, and build on others’ ideas.

The United Sounds of Los Angeles #3: How a two-month stint turned into a two-year odyssey of jam sessions, crashing on people's couches, causing havoc in public places, and once in a while ...

Spotlight: Charlie Parker 2023 welcomes jazz fans from all over the world to celebrate the iconic saxophonist with a series of concerts, educational opportunities and jam sessions.

How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound and Substance of Bebop ... and Charlie Parker fell through a music warp while playing “Cherokee” in a jam session. But it found its form and ...

Today marks the centennial of the birth of jazz great Charlie Parker, ... This marked the beginning of a tumultuous two years for Bird, bumming around LA, showing up at jam sessions, ...

Jazz impresario Norman Granz was one of the greatest benefactors of the "jam session concept in jazz history. His Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts (many of which were documented since the first in ...

NPR: Charlie Parker: 'Bird Lives!'Part 1 -- "In Kansas City's jazz scene, after-hours jam sessions filled the night air.After gaining a reputation as an aspiring saxophonist, a teenaged Parker ...

Jam Session At The Blue Room—American Jazz Museum 1600 E 18th St Kansas City, MO 64108 Tuesday, August 22nd 6:00 PM Vivid Vision Opening Panel Session “Women in Jazz, Charlie Parker’s Influence” – @ ...

A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.