The first six tracks on this album, which were recorded at New York City's Town Hall on June 22, 1945, are amongst the most exciting in the jazz compendium. Not only because of their intrinsic ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...

Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie were inexorably linked in the bebop firmament of jazz, cutting a number of remarkable records together during a relatively short time span ...

This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from ...

Seventy years ago, jazz great Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at what many call the greatest jazz concert ever. A new deluxe reissue of that recording is out now. More than 70 years ago, ...

“Bebop & Beyond: The Music Of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie,” featuring Charles McPherson, Gilbert Castellanos, Jeremy Pelt, Antonio Hart, Gerald Clayton, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth Concerts ...