The Jazz Life— Charlie Parker
“…a new wave of sax players were coming and going in Kansas City.”
16 min readDec 18, 2020
Ross Russell’s 1973 biography of jazz musician, Charlie Parker, is as much a history of 1930s America, as it is post-war America. It is also the history of a nation seen from the point of view of not just Parker, but most working jazz musicians of those periods. And when writing about the post-war era…
