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    Honoring a jazz giant: Charlie Parker

    Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:13:14

    Charlie Parker, Gene Ammons, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean


    Honoring a jazz giant: Charlie Parker

    On the night of Parker's death -- hastened on by long-standing drug addiction and other excesses -- Segal convened a Roosevelt University session in Bird's memory and revived it annually. Eventually, the impresario shifted the tribute to the more ...Full Story at Chicago Tribune »

    Tags: Charlie Parker, Gene Ammons, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Steve Turre, Terence Blanchard, Ornette Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nicholas Payton