Charlie Parker
Take Your Pills
as Self (archive footage)In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a...
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician (archive footage)An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz...
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Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
as SelfBlues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the...
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The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the...
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Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self - Subject (archive footage)In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie...
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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
as Charlie ParkerA documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.
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Improvisation
as SelfAn improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.
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Improvisation
as SelfImprovisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in...
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Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere
as Self - Archival FootageKansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird”...
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