Details | Legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker changed the world of music as one of the innovators of bebop. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra’s artistic director and conductor Charlie Young, Dwandalyn R. Reece, curator music and performing arts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Gerald Dunn and Bobby Watson from the American Jazz Museum celebrate Parker’s sound and examine how his brilliance and charisma had an impact on the course of music like no other. |
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