The WSWS recently spoke to master musician Charles McPherson about the relationship between music, art and society.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — People from all over the world are still coming to Kansas City to pay their respects to one of the true giants of American jazz. It’s Charlie Parker, a jazz legend who went ...

Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker, released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name of a 1995 compilation album released by Verve ...

01. Anthropology (Parker) - 4:58; 02. Steeplechase (Parker) - 4:30; 03. Barbados (Parker) - 5:31; 04. Ornithology (Parker-Harris) - 3:59; 05. K.C. Blues (Parker) - 5: ...

In depicting African American culture, Romare Bearden painted jazz scenes, incorporated titles of favorite performances in his collages, and created specific works for albums by Charlie Parker, Donald ...

Carol Webster. Mr. Donaldson emerged as a bebop protégé of alto saxophone master Charlie Parker and by the early 1950s was ...

The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker. Covering Parker's early years from his birth in Kansas City in 1920 to his first trip to New York at age 19, it reads like the jazz version of Batman Begins ...

Charlie Parker, and Horace Silver spinning off a three-minute-long machine-operated platter. In the late 1970s Columbia Records’ jazz roster included artists such as Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw ...