Subject: Charlie Parker

• Reppin' KC in the Wiki-P, at Mercy Seat

  June 4, 2007

• Happy Birthday, Bird

  August 27, 2007

• Around Hear

  Local legend Sonny Kenner dies at age 67, leaving behind a mourning music scene.

  February 1, 2001

• Shauntay Henderson found guilty of voluntary manslaughter

  By NADIA PFLAUM Remember when Shauntay Henderson was one of America's Most Wanted? Remember when the FBI sought her for an "execution-style murder," claiming she had shot her victim three times in the chest at close range with a semi-automatic weapon? Not so much. Today, Jackson County 15th Circuit Court Judge Robert Schieber found 26-year-old Henderson guilty of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action -- not murder in the second degree, as the prosecution charged -- for shooting D

  November 18, 2008

• Roller Warriors TV series premieres tonight

  I'm really looking forward to Metro Sports' documentary series on the tough skating and fighting chicks in the Kansas City Roller Warriors. The series debuts tonight at 9, replays at 9:30 and airs Thursday nights at 9:30 for seven weeks. Roller Warriors recalls the 2008 season (the 2009 gets rolling next weekend). Last month, I talked with Charlie Parker, the producer of the series, who told me he went into the project knowing nothing about roller derby or the women who skate and bleed.

  January 15, 2009

• Coming to Screenland: Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

  If you've passed the original Screenland this week and wondered how it managed to book a dead singing legend to play the Crossroads -- the marquee now reads simply "Anita O'Day" -- the answer turns out to be simple. Friday, the theater opens the documentary Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer, which hit the festival circuit last year. O'Day, known as "the Jezebel of Jazz," lived harder than Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker put together. She was pronounced legally dead after a late-'60s h

  January 21, 2009

• Tito Puente

  September 12, 2002

• Somewhere, Over the Radio...

  October 23, 2003

• The Band Plays On

  May 13, 2004

• Charlie Parker Memorial Concert

  March 24, 2005

• Hassle Free

  May 19, 2005

• KC Confidential

  August 4, 2005

• Reel Life Letters, August 24

  September 7, 2006

• Fried Up

  January 25, 2007

• Letters from the week of February 15

  February 15, 2007

• Words About Jazz

  June 19, 2008

• Goin' to Where?

  March 13, 2008

• Now in her 90s, Kansas City jazz singer Myra Taylor has had a life of ups and downs in the music industry

  February 21, 2008

• Shauntay Speaks

  Awaiting trial in March, Shauntay Henderson remembers her community-activist grandmother and dreams of making babies.

  January 24, 2008

• Party in the Street

  September 13, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of June 2, 2005

  June 2, 2005

• For the Bird

  August 23, 2007

• Melt With Us

  May 18, 2006

• Market Fresh

  Filthy Fattz wants to rap for a generation. Will KC let him?

  November 17, 2005

• Nowhere to Hide

  September 15, 2005

• Cinema Paradise

  FilmFest KC jazzes up the big screen.

  October 14, 2004

• Dream On

  Oh, what a wonderful world this would be if rock stars had their own Olympics.

  August 12, 2004

• Back in the Day

  Remembering when Kansas City was cool.

  July 29, 2004

• Charlie Hunter Trio

  Thursday, June 3, at the Jazzhaus.

  June 3, 2004

• Beatin' the Heat

  Nights are short in the summer, but these jams are long.

  May 20, 2004

• For Posterity

  The American Jazz Museum goes to the movies.

  March 11, 2004

• Count Basie Orchestra

  Friday, February 27, at the Folly Theater.

  February 26, 2004

• Tricked Out

  Here's a bag of goodies for ya. Now get out of here.

  October 30, 2003

• Battle of the Saxes

  Thursday, August 28, at the Grand Emporium.

  August 28, 2003

• Anniversary Singer

  Luqman Hamza keeps jazzing it up.

  May 22, 2003

• Frank Morgan Quintet

  Saturday, March 22, at the Gem Theater.

  March 20, 2003

• Back From Black

  Former Crowe Chris Robinson soars into new musical territory.

  February 27, 2003

• Kevin Mahogany

  Sunday, January 20, at the Gem Theater.

  January 16, 2003

• Age of Prominence

  Talented teen Eldar has Kansas City listeners' full attention -- for now.

  October 10, 2002

• Nothing For Dinner

  Al Fleming is in charge of bringing new business to 18th and Vine. But he's inspiring some sour notes.

  May 2, 2002

• Around Hear

  This weekend, Kansas City serves up its best blues and jazz on both sides of the state line.

  June 21, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of March 22, 2001

  March 22, 2001

• Buzzbox

  Luqman Hamza -- Saturday, November 25, the Blue Room

  November 23, 2000

• Night & Day Events

  week of June 8, 2000

  June 8, 2000

• The Redevelopment Blues

  Kansas City has made an investment in the 18th and Vine Historic District. Isn't it about time it starts paying off?

  June 1, 2000

• Giving Kansas City the Bird

  The American Jazz Museum's Charlie Parker Symposium gives Kansas City a full lesson in jazz.

  Water witching -- not only is it still around, but you won't believe what it can do for you.

  March 23, 2000

• Mutual Musicians Foundation announces
  Bird Lives Festival

  This August 29 and 30, there'll be no sleepin' at 18th and Vine (not that there ever is sleepin' down there on a Saturday night) as the Mutual Musicians Foundation celebrates the birthday of immortal superlegend and KC native son Charles "Yardbird" Parker with 24 hours of music and ceremony. Here's the schedule so far. Call the Foundation at 816-471-5212 for more details. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 12 p.m. - Jazz & Blues Musicians Group Photo 1 to 2 p.m. - Kansas City Jazz Pioneers Flags of Fame Dedi

  August 12, 2009

• Video: Charlie Parker Graveside Sax Salute

  Yesterday around 12:30 p.m., a yakety of local saxophonists gathered around Charlie Parker's grave in Kansas City's Lincoln Cemetery to blow out a tribute to Bird. The day before, August 29, celebrations at the Mutual Musicians Foundation and the Jazz Museum (but mostly the Foundation) commemorated what would've been Parker's 89th birthday. In the video, the saxers play a fanfare then trade solos round-robin style, beginning with local patriarch Ahmad Alaadeen. A crowd of 60 or so people att

  August 31, 2009

• Bird Flu: Competing Charlie Parker birthday celebrations hint at division on 18th & Vine.

  When it came to celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday on Saturday, August 29, Kansas Citians had two main options: the First Annual Kansas City Yardbird Jazz & Film Festival at the American Jazz Museum and, just around the corner, the Bird Lives Festival at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. Many people might have thought the two events were part of the same festival. But the sad truth is that the Kansas City jazz scene can't even put on a unified celebration of its most influential native son's

  August 31, 2009

• Bird Flu: Competing Charlie Parker birthday celebrations hint at division on 18th and Vine

  September 3, 2009