Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster all had links to KC - and another prominent local name was an organ player who went by Big John Patton. Now, don't let that title ...

He was a swing-era blower who crossed over to bebop starting in 1946 and recorded live with Charlie Parker in 1949 at New York's Royal ... For too long he's been thought of as a Coleman Hawkins clone ...

I started listening to jazz, and I became acquainted with the giants of the jazz saxophone world: Charlie Parker; Coleman Hawkins; Sonny Rollins; Paul Desmond. Power, finesse, minimal saliva.

While practicing and studying the music he worked with John Kirby, Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Andy Kirk ... he also made several historically important recordings with Charlie Parker for Norman ...

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of April 27-May 3 include actor Jessica Alba, wrestler-actor Dwayne Johnson and ...

Tom Walsh, professor of music in saxophone and chair of the Department of Jazz Studies at the Indiana University Jacobs ...

A decade of trailblazing and trauma defined jazz pianist Earl “Bud” Powell’s life prior to recording “Piano Interpretations” ...

Actor Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) is 49 ... Actor Sheila Vand (“24: Legacy”) is 40. Actor Jenna Coleman (“Victoria,” ″Doctor Who”) is 39. Singer Nick Noonan of Karmin ...

The Big Apple certainly didn’t know what hit it when Charlie Parker blew into town ... It’s worth noting that tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins anticipated the improv aspect of bebop when ...

At an early age, Rickey came up listening to such greats as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt. Rickey’s favorite saxophone players ...

Actor Sally Hawkins ... Ray Parker Jr. is 71. Actor Byron Stewart is 69. Actor Maia Morgenstern is 63. Actor Scott Coffey is 61. Country singer Wayne Hancock is 60. Actor Charlie Schlatter is ...