The plastic Grafton alto saxophone that Charlie Parker played during a 1953 performance has returned to its place in the American Jazz Museum. Charlie Parker’s Grafton alto saxophone has returned to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This weekend Alto Sax player Frank Morgan brought his soulful, sweet jazz to the Bird of Paradise.

In his 34 years, Charlie Parker lived life on an operatic scale. The saxophone player from Kansas City reinvented an art form by bringing bebop to center stage, but behind the scenes Parker grappled ...

Charlie “Bird” Parker was one of the wonders of 20th-century music. During his troubled 34 years on earth, he changed the course of jazz history. Yet nothing is simple about the life of this ...