
Charlie Parker
Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie performs at the Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival on Jan. 15, 1966. Bob Daugherty/AP hide caption
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Edward Norton On World Cafe
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee plays the title role in the new opera Charlie Parker's Yardbird. Dominic Mercier/Opera Philadelphia hide caption
Charlie Parker, shown here in an undated photo, was a legendary jazz saxophonist. STF/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Flutist Hubert Laws is one of many jazz artists to have recorded an adaptation of themes from The Rite of Spring. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption
Guatemalan author Eduardo Halfon's most recent book, The Polish Boxer, mesmerized us. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Charlie Parker: 'Bird Lives!' Part 2
Norman Granz at his office in July 1987.
Tad Hershorn/Courtesy of the artist hide captionJudy Garland (right) sang "I Got Rhythm" in the 1943 movie version of the 1930s musical Girl Crazy. Courtesy of MGM hide caption
"Donna Lee," from Charlie Parker (Savoy single 652-B). Recorded May 8, 1947.
Steve Wilson introduces five alto saxophonists who've mastered this beast of a horn. John Abbott hide caption
Charlie Parker, ca. Aug. 1947. William P. Gottlieb/Library of Congress via flickr.com hide caption