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 ...

Chuck Haddix's more conventional and workmanlike Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker is ... Eastwood's 1988 biopic of Parker—he was so nervous that he played ahead of the rest of the ...

Listening to Charlie Parker’s saxophone gymnastics on a new ... On “Body and Soul (Phil Baxter Version),” he plays the same note 17 times in a row, and leaves others in the room laughing.