let alone New Orleans styles, Parker’s music sounds hectic, disjointed, and scribble-scrabulous, but it quickly became a vital inspiration to a younger generation of musicians. (Miles Davis was ...

Two years ago, a revelatory suite of Charlie Parker’s recordings ... the first disk (including an appearance by the trumpeter Miles Davis, who was then just nineteen) presents the groups ...

There’s a great story behind “Miles Davis ... different paths. Davis was already a minor star in 1945, at the age of nineteen, when he recorded with Charlie Parker. Three years later, at ...

Charlie Parker ... they were made a month before Parker’s first date as a leader for the label (and also include the nineteen-year-old Miles Davis). Gordon’s session was thoroughly imbued ...

Important but brief sequences portray Davis’s experience of racist discrimination and violence, such as a beating by New York police in 1959. Interviews with his musical collaborators are given ...

Wayne Shorter, who was born only thirteen years after Charlie Parker and seven years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane ... accompanying Shorter’s new recording and graphic novel, “Emanon ...

Charlie Parker, the once and future sovereign of bebop, would have turned ninety-nine on Aug. 29. Gary Bartz, Vincent Herring, and Bobby Watson—three biting Parker acolytes who, like the Master ...

Gotham Chamber Opera is no more, but “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” an ingratiating ... And the recently resuscitated New York City Opera is plunging boldly into the fray, offering the East ...