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Monday, 9/1/2025, 10pm - Jazz Night In America with Christian McBride

KCSM
Published August 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM PDT
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Don Dixon
Charlie "Bird" Parker

Bird with Strings.

August 29 marks Charlie Parker’s birthday, and to celebrate, Jazz Night in America presents an encore of our episode devoted to “Charlie Parker with Strings”—the most commercially successful project of his too-brief career.

We explore the backstory and legacy of this landmark recording, with rare selections featuring saxophonists Wess Anderson and Charles McPherson
KCSM HD1 (Jazz 91)