Charlie Parker Movies
- 2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool7.32019HD
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
- 2018
Take Your Pills
Take Your Pills6.62018HD
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?
- 2023
Eastwood Symphonic
Eastwood Symphonic72023HD
Bassist and composer Kyle Eastwood reunites his quintet with the Orchestre National de Lyon to pay tribute to the career of his father, legendary...
- 2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs6.82022HD
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...
- 1989
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker101989HD
A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.
- 1970
Cool
Cool01970HD
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...
- 2004
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance62004HD
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
- 2004
Improvisation
Improvisation02004HD
Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival...
- 2020
Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere
Bird: Not Out Of Nowhere62020HD
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...
- 1950
Improvisation
Improvisation51950HD
An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.
- 1970
Bird 100
Bird 10001970HD
“ Bird 100 ” , a tribute to Charlie Parker on the centenary of his birth ( Aug. 29, 1920). The story of Bird, the revolutionary musician...