Charlie Parker
| Born | August 29, 1920 |
| Hometown | Kansas City, Kansas, United States |
| Spouse | Chan Parker |
| Children | Baird Parker, Pree Parker |
| Parents | Charles Parker, Addie Parker |
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‘Back To Black’ Review: A Refreshingly Honest Look At The Short, Troubled Life Of Amy Winehouse
- For her “unofficial” 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Johnson had so little music to work with that the opening chord of “Hard Day’s Night” pretty much had to carry the whole movie. You might think that history would repeat for Back to Black, the short but fast-lived story of Amy Winehouse, who rose …
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Charlie Parker's jazz legacy lives on, a look back on his impact
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Charlie Parker’s jazz legacy in Kansas City lives on, a look back on his impact
People from all over the world are still coming to Kansas City to pay their respects to Charlie Parker, one of the true giants of American jazz.
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How This New York Restaurant Is Carrying on the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance
Tsion Cafe sits in the former home of Jimmy's Chicken Shack, where greats like Malcolm X, Redd Foxx, and Charlie Parker worked before they became famous.
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The Imposter (2012) Streaming: Watch & Stream Online Via Peacock
The Imposter (2012) is a multi-leveled and twist-filled documentary about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin. The main character of the movie is inspired by the trickster who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in the year 1994. […] The post The Imposter (2012) Streaming: Watch & Stream Online Via Peacock appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
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"Bird just grinned. He’d never heard a guitar played like that!" He saw T-Bone Walker, worked with Charlie Parker and uses a drawer-knob instead of a pick: Chicago jazz supremo George Freeman, 96, loo
He’s a bebop originator who’s played with everyone from Charlie Parker to Jimmy McGriff and who saw the popular music transform from jazz to swing and beyond. Now in his 90s, George Freeman has a new album out…
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2023's Best Boxed Sets: Prince, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jason Isbell
Every day is Boxing Day if you’re a physical music aficionado who prizes the multi-disc packages that are an essential part of most serious fans’ collection. Most of these are available in purely digital form, too, for the Marie Kondo decluttering cult out there. But if you really love these artists and have anything bigger …
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Norby Walters Dies: ‘Night Of 100 Stars’ Oscar Party Impresario, Music Agent & Hollywood Poker Game Host Was 91
Norby Walters, the onetime music agent who ran the annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscar party for years and hosted an iconic low-stakes poker party for actors, died December 12. He was 91. His son, Walters Media Group founder and former Bold Films CEO Gary Michael Walters, confirmed the news but did not provide details. …
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Norby Walters, Host of Oscar Parties and an Iconic Hollywood Poker Game, Dies at 91
Norby Walters, a music agent who worked with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Kool & the Gang and Public Enemy before gaining renown in Hollywood for his annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscar party and weekly poker game, has died. He was 91. Walters died Dec. 10 of natural causes at an assisted living …
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“It’s hard to think who the greatest bass players are. You could say Flea, but he doesn’t need the plug!” Jack Bruce on the bass players that shaped his sound
Back in 2010, we asked Cream bassist Jack Bruce to nominate five albums that influenced his bass playing
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Carlos Santana: "I Told René Martinez that I Didn't Want to Play a Strat – I Thought to Make it Sustain, I'd Have to Play So Loud that I Didn't Know if I Could Have Babies!"
On the eve of the release of his astonishingly successful 'Supernatural' album, the virtuoso sat down with GP to discuss taking inspiration from Miles Davis and Peter Green's legato lines, and reveal what (and who) finally got him to use a Tube Screamer.
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Inside Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’s ‘incomparable’ library
The release last week of the new Rolling Stones single, Angry, heralded the band’s first album of new material in 18 years, Hackney Diamonds. So it is poignant that Charlie Watts – the drummer who for decades, until his death in 2021, kept his head down at the back of the stage – is having his own moment in the limelight.
