All This Is That

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Two favorites performing together. . .with Ray Brown (whom I got to see just once; Bird died when I was two year...

By Jack Brummet C arrying his dented horn in a paper sack,  Pawned, lost, fifty times found and bought back, He paid the price of ...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Air Conditioning is one of my very favorite Charlie Parker songs. I first heard it on a Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie ...

H appy [posthumous] Birthday to Dizzy Gillespie.  I was lucky to see Diz twice--once at the Village Gate on Bleecker St. and once at the Pa...

This is a pretty cool video ...starting off with Bird watching Coleman Hawkins play and then Coleman watching Bird play. This is followed by...

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie play Dexterity on film. Bird has been my favorite saxaphone player since I first heard him when I was ab...