a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and cymbal patterns that earned him the nickname of “Snap Crackle”; he played with a panoply of leading lights, including Charlie Parker ...

Listening to Charlie Parker’s saxophone gymnastics on a new album of rare recordings is like watching Simone Biles stretch during warmups. A new collection, Bird in Kansas City captures Parker’s grace ...

The Birth Of Bop, Volume 1: Charlie Parker: Romance Without Finance; Dexter Gordon: Dexter’s Minor Mad; J. J. Johnson: Jay Bird; Milt Jackson: Hearing Bells; Leo Parker: Chase ’N’ Lion (Chase’n The ...

“Bird” was Charlie Parker, and the course of Donaldson ... the epicentre of the nascent bebop movement, and played on early tracks by the likes of Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell and Horace ...