The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities

MC5 leader rolls five books into one

"...learning at the knee of "prison father" Red Rodney, Charlie Parker's former right-hand man. Fifty years after asking the..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?

Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.

"...Kimura and partner Eric Leonard’s new joint, Parker Jazz Club – in the basement of the old..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Person to Person

The New York ensemble subgenre gets some fresh air

"...of revenge porn, and a mystery involving a rare Charlie Parker record...."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Michael Agresta

Touched With Fire

Two manic-depressive poets meet in group therapy and fall in love

"...Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Eugene O’Neill, and musicians Charlie Parker and Tchaikovsky are among the many figures posthumously..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Herb Alpert’s School of Music

Trumpeter’s alums include Waylon, Satchmo, and Karen Carpenter

"...classical teachers. Yet I heard Miles [Davis], Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and all those guys. I wanted to switch..."

Sept. 24, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

Playback

The Eastern Sea catch the 'Plague,' Eagle Claw goes samurai, John Wesley Coleman III wants to direct, and you can't pee on the Midgetmen

"...extremely charismatic vocal style capable of matching instrumentals like Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite," but you know him from something..."

June 22, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Chico & Rita

The music, scored by Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, is the real star of this animated movie.

"...Calle 54) and featuring songs by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, the film rockets from the glitzy cabarets and..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bomb the Bass

Who says the guitar is sexier than bass? Not Return to Forever's Stanley Clarke, and hopefully not Beyoncé either.

"...people who don't like it. Some people didn't like Charlie Parker; some people definitely didn't like Coltrane. Not to..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk Quartet, and John Coltrane

Gift guide

"...Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Billie Holiday

Gift guide

"...singular human accomplishment, but as with another endnote, 2003's Charlie Parker: The Complete Verve Master Takes, the opposite end..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Joni's Jazz

"...Ellington more so than Gershwin -- with originators like Charlie Parker. I like Patsy Cline. The originals in every..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Kansas City

"...which is watched from the balcony by the young Charlie Parker (Albert J. Burnes). Numerous other contemporary jazz musicians..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Revolutionary Letter to Artists

Someone waved

"...crazy and "only" Scott Fitzgerald's wife. I think of Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, playing with such brilliance in..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Column

Box Sets: Record Reviews

"...Big Band Renaissance, as it traces a line from Charlie Parker's '41 solo on Jay McShann's "Swingtime" all the..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Music Review

Spontaneous Convergence

Chris Cogburn's No Idea Festival risks improvisation

"...Charlie Parker once said, "Learn everything, then forget it all."..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Miles and Miles of Miles

The Columbia Legacy

"...Louis sat in with Billy Eckstine's band and watched Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie slay the hometown audience, Miles..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 1

Smelling the jasmine with Vince Martin and Fred Neil

"...jazz shows. We'd go see Dizzy Gillespie or a Charlie Parker tribute band in smoky, grownup, New York City..."

May 18, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Twenty Flight Rock

Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

"...fellow Oklahoma City residents, singer Jimmy Rushing and guitarist Charlie Christian, both of whom would move on to NYC..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Thelonious Monk

"...Many of the recordings here are quartets with tenorman Charlie Rouse, bassists John Ore or Larry Gales, and drummers..."

July 13, 2001 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Cubana Be Cubana Bop

Field guide to Cuba's second-biggest export after cigars

"...Their music soon became known as Afro Cubop. Later, Charlie Parker and Gillespie made memorable recorded appearances with Machito's..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Spinning Yarns

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

"...others. His tales are amazing, like hanging out with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billy Eckstein, or the time..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Identifying the Impulse

"...extension of the trail blazed by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Fast, kinetic, and chord heavy, Powell did most..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Cubanisimo!

Ray Barretto and the Roots of Afro-Cuban Jazz

"...as Howard McGhee as soloists; Machito later collaborated with Charlie Parker. The exciting product of this synthesis became known..."

June 12, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Deconstructing Sonic Borders

The 13th annual No Idea Festival explores everything from phenological sound art to avant jazz and microtonal composition

"...Art in a SoundSpace organized by local trombonist Steve Parker, performing with Texas-based experimentalist Steve Jansen at the museum's..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Music Feature by Conor Walker

Three Cheers for Reading

Our favorite books of 2013

"...chronicling the early life and career of legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker. Crouch's colorful embrace of African-American culture in general..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

Not-so-crazy pianism

"...pantheon of jazz geniuses alongside Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane is pianist/composer Thelonious..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Postmarks

The 'Chronicle' Sells Out, Again; Go Ahead, Lament Us; Table of Contents Not Useful on Page 4; Envision a Correct Map; Fair Reporting on Police

"...spun: Clifford Brown, Poncho Sanchez, Sun Ra, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Orbert Davis, Michel Camilo, Zoot Sims, Thelonious Monk,..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column

Jazz and More

"...spun: Clifford Brown, Poncho Sanchez, Sun Ra, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Orbert Davis, Michel Camilo, Zoot Sims, Thelonious Monk,..."

Nov. 3, 2003 Postmarks

Matthew Shipp

Record Review

"...the funkified grooves laid down by omnipresent bassist William Parker, drummer Guillermo E. Brown, and scratch 'n' sample meister..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

John Lewis

"...and "Afternoon in Paris" (titled "That! Afternoon in Paris"). "Parker's Mood" is fun thanks to Lewis quoting Charlie Parker's..."

April 27, 2001 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

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