Bebop, born in the 1940s through the genius of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and their peers, reshaped jazz into a complex, high-energy art form. Its rapid tempos, intricate harmonies, and fearless ...

Jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker, whose nickname was "Bird," was born in Kansas City on August 29th, 1920. For the past month, his hometown has been celebrating his 100th birthday, ...

Charlie Parker, born in 1920, is the Orson Welles of jazz, the musician who, sparking an artistic revolution while still in his own extreme youth, both rejuvenated the art form metaphorically and ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy, hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...

WEST PALM BEACH — The swing, rhythm and blues of jazz will reverberate at the Kravis Center this Sunday for the sixth edition of the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival. The festival will feature ...

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

Bebop officially emerged in 1945 when Dizzy Gillsepie recorded Be-Bop (also known as Dizzy's Fingers). The jazz press didn't start using the term until 1946 to define an entire genre of emerging music ...

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Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five minutes ...

Jazz was the most influential musical movement of the 20th century. What’s its story? The Count Basie Orchestra. Alexander ...