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Charlie Parker

December 2022

  • Stewart Lee, Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman, Beverley Knight and Sharon Rose, and Abba.

    The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January

    You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days

November 2022

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Anybody Speaking Words, 1982. Private collection, Switzerland. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo Fotoearte

    ‘KABOOM!’ – why Basquiat’s explosive art should be listened to, not just looked at

    From Beethoven to bebop to his own abrasive, atonal ‘noise band’, the now revered artist tuned his work to music at every turn of his career, as a major new show reveals

December 2021

  • Tony Williams

    Other lives
    Tony Williams obituary

    Other lives: Jazz record producer and authority on Charlie Parker and his music

November 2020

  • Parker … died at the age of 34, crippled by heroin addiction.

    'He'll make your head explode': sax stars on the genius and tragedy of Charlie Parker

    He was nicknamed Bird and he soared in his music – if not in his life. For the centenary of the saxophonist who redefined jazz, today’s players reveal how his dizzying speed and spirituality changed their lives

September 2020

  • Peter King performing in 1994

    Peter King obituary

    Brilliant British jazz saxophonist and composer inspired by Charlie Parker

July 2017

  • Charlie Parker (with Miles Davis on trumpet and Tommy Potter on bass) in 1948.

    The Passion of Charlie Parker review – Madeleine Peyroux and friends sing Bird songs

June 2017

  • ‘Parker’s dialogue with Gillespie has Rossinan wit and poise’ … Will Liverman (left) as Dizzy Gillespie and Lawrence Brownlee (right) as Charlie Parker in Yardbird.

    Charlie Parker's Yardbird review – beauty, anger and poetry, but the jazz great's genius eludes us

  • Soprano Angela Mortellaro as Charlie’s third wife, Doris Parker, and tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Charlie Parker in the World Premiere of Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD

    The Bird in my hand: my journey to Charlie Parker

January 2017

  • Billie Holiday

    Jazz snobbery is not all in the (male) genes

    Letters: Jazz snobs can be women too. I’ve been one since I was a teenager

June 2016

  • Charlie Parker

    Children's books
    Why music is the beating heart of my poetry

    CLiPPA nominated poet John Lyons grew up in Trinidad in the 1930s and 40s where singing and telling stories were as natural a part of his life as breathing. Now in his 80s, here’s why music still helps him go with the flow and might help you too

April 2016

  • Billy Paul at a reception in London in 1973.

    Billy Paul obituary

    American singer who scored a massive hit with the soul classic Me and Mrs Jones

December 2015

  • An undated photo of jazz singer Billie Holiday during a recording session

    The playlist
    The playlist: Christmas jazz – Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and more

    A festive 10-song special, from White Christmas and an all-star version of Winter Wonderland to a capricious take on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

July 2015

  • Charlie Parker, Jazz musician, playing saxophone

    Taking to the sea for a hit of jazz heroes

    Letter: People including Ronnie Scott and Johnny (as he then was) Dankworth heard the early bop pioneers like Charlie Parker during their shore leave in New York

October 2014

  • Saxophones Harlem Bill Clinton

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: best saxophone songs

    Jazz to ska, pop to classical, blow your horn in songs featuring an instrument known for its curvaceous, and vocal sex appeal, says Peter Kimpton

June 2014

  • Taxi Driver featuring Robert De Niro, directed by Martin Scorsese (1976)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about taxis

    Cars, boats, rickshaws and other rides, state your destinations, local or international, all for the knowledge of cab-related music, says Peter Kimpton

November 2013

  • Charlie Parker

    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch – review

    Richard Williams on a pungent life of the jazz saxophonist, told from a black perspective

October 2013

  • Ella Fitzgerald performs

    Verve Records and the man who made jazz the sound of America

    Norman Granz, the founder of Verve Records, did much to end racial segregation in US concert halls – as well as masterminding the later career of Ella Fitzgerald. By Stuart Nicholson

June 2013

  • Django Bates

    Django Bates Beloved Trio – review

    Bates originals and Charlie Parker themes are performed with enthusiasm and fascinating freshness, writes John Fordham

November 2012

  • Miles Davis in 1989

    From Rock's Backpages
    Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults

    With the London jazz festival upon us, we head back to 1985 for this NME encounter with the great trumpeter, in our latest visit to Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism

June 2012

  • Nica DE KOENIGSWARTER

    The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild – review

    Richard Williams on the colourful life of a jazz philanthropist
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