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WQED-FM Broadcast - Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

Saturday, October 23, 2021 to Saturday, October 23, 2021
1:00PM

Location: 89.3FM or WQED.org


(Our 2021 production of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. photo credit: David Bachman)

It's time for the 2020-21 season recap! WQED-FM continues their annual rebroadcasts of our last season with Daniel Schnyder & Bridgette A. Wimberly's Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.  

While the body of the legendary tormented saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker lies unidentified in a New York City morgue, his ghost travels back to Birdland, the famed New York City jazz club named after him. As he struggles to complete his final masterpiece, the great bebop innovator revisits the demons, inspirations, and women who have both fueled and hindered his creative genius.

Listen at 89.3 on your FM dial or at WQED.org.