Dave Chisholm's retelling of Bird's late 1940s California stay will be released in September. By Graeme McMillan Chasin’ The Bird, the comic book biography of jazz icon Charlie Parker Jr. (or Bird, as ...

Like music-biography movies (think Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman for two recent examples), comic music bios often get confused about what they are trying to accomplish. Even the fantastic-looking ...

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading ...

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing. By Barry Singer Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny ...

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