In November 1949, Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record an album of ballads with a mixed group of jazz and chamber orchestra musicians. The releases from these sessions included “Charlie Parker ...

Set on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Church Street, Prairie Moon hosts a monthly open jam session from 8 to 10 p.m. in addition to professional gigs every Wednesday night.

Editor’s Note: The Orange Room Sessions is a collaborative project led by a team of writers, photographers, and videographers to showcase local student bands. The mini-concerts take place in The ...

February at the Clubs: Besides the aforementioned Wednesday Jam sessions at Mr. Henry’s , the Pennsylvania Ave/Capitol Hill boite plays host to vocalist Sarah Laven Jones and her ensemble on February ...

Roy Haynes, among the greatest and most influential drummers in the history of jazz, died on Tuesday in Nassau County, N.Y., on the South Shore of Long Island. He was 99. His death, after a brief ...

In 1939, Parker visited New York for the first time, and he stayed for nearly a year working as a professional musician and often participating in jam sessions. The New York atmosphere greatly ...

The Charlie Parker Memorial was dedicated in 1999 near 17th Terrace and Vine in Kansas City. The bronze sculpture designed by California artist Robert Graham bears an appropriate inscription ...

In this period, he used to hang-out on 52nd Street to listen to Charlie Parker and Powell and began sitting in at various jam sessions around town. In January of 1950, Drew made his first appearance ...

Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker." Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1920, but "Bird" was arguably born during a jam session at the city's Reno Club in 1937.

The tenor saxophonist, who died in 2012, would have been 100 on Oct. 3. Freeman's weekly jam session at the New Apartment Lounge on Chicago's South Side became an international pilgrimage site.