Arts Oct 14 Stanley Crouch on ‘Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker’ Listen to Chief Arts Correspondent Jeffrey Brown's interview with Stanley Crouch above "The Jazz story ... it's the American story" or so says Stanley Crouch, jazz scholar and author of the new book, "Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and… By Victoria Fleischer
Arts Feb 23 Conversation: Joe Lovano Takes On Parker Joe Lovano is taking the music of Charlie Parker and putting his own spin on some of Bird's compositions, while making sure the original music remains clearly traceable to the great tenor saxophonist. By Molly Finnegan