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Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting...
Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Take Your Pills
A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.
Improvisation
Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the 1940s in the bars of New York and LA, and became...
Cool
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
The Harlem Renaissance
“ Bird 100 ” , a tribute to Charlie Parker on the centenary of his birth ( Aug. 29, 1920). The story of Bird, the revolutionary musician...
Bird 100
Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival...
Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales,...
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs