Parker primarily played the alto saxophone. Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and …

Oct 24, 2019 · One of those horns, the last saxophone he owned, recently went on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The King Super 20 …

Nov 14, 2025 · Charlie Parker, American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of …

Sep 8, 2025 · But Parker was Parker. That night, using a budget plastic saxophone made in London, he delivered one of the most blistering and inventive live performances ever recorded.

Charlie first picked up the saxophone in fifth grade, when the school district introduced a music program at Penn. Years later, Charlie recalled not being quite “ready” for the saxophone...

Jul 1, 2025 · For much of his career, Charlie Parker played the Conn 6M alto saxophone, manufactured by the C.G. Conn company in Elkhart, Indiana. The Conn 6M, also called the …

Charlie led the saxophone section and helped Jay develop a book of new arrangements for the band. The band traveled widely across the Mid-West. Charlie received his nickname during a …

Charlie Parker, Jr., was born in Kansas, City, Kansas, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He left high school in 1935 to join a local musician’s union, though he had shone with his …

Explore the life and music of Charlie Parker, the iconic saxophonist and bebop pioneer who transformed jazz with his speed, skill, and revolutionary improvisation

Dec 1, 2023 · After a former mayor spent $144,000 of public money on the synthetic saxophone, it became the centerpiece of a Kansas City institution. A reissued recording of the instrument, …