Kind of Bird

12/05/2025

Charlie Parker’s sad extinction released myriad afterlives: musical colossus, modernist exemplar, contested emblem of...

12/04/2025

Imagine settling down in front of your TV set on Christmas day 1957 and seeing the great Miles Davis appear on your screen.
That’s what happened for many French jazz fans, via a short Parisian television performance that was considered lost until just a few years ago…

Everyone thinks Miles Davis’ electric era begins with the explosion… But Filles de Kilimanjaro was the real spark.

12/02/2025

BIX BEIDERBECKE: A CRASH-COURSE IN BIX-OLOGY An exploration of the Bix Beiderbecke story conducted loosely around ...

11/29/2025

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11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from Louis, Miles, Billie and Ben Webster!

11/22/2025

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Radio broadcast, Royal Roost, NYC, 1948 - 1949.

11/22/2025

Remembering Coleman Hawkins On His Birthday
(November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969)

11/14/2025

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November 13, 1953. A studio, a few musicians, and no plan…until sketched out a new tune on the spot.

“Friday the 13th,” recorded that day with , Julius Watkins, Percy Heath, and Willie Jones, stretched into a ten-minute jam that closed out Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins. It was written in a moment but built to last, capturing the wild spark of Monk’s imagination in real time.

Celebrate its anniversary and listen now at the link below. 🎹🎷
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11/13/2025

The music of the Hot Five and the Hot Seven is considered by most critics to be among the finest recordings in Jazz history.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from Kind of Bird!

10/28/2025

RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83.

10/14/2025

What time are y’all going? October 14, 1931.

Time machine time! Let’s fire it up and go back to St. Louis where Louis Armstrong was performing at Pythian Hall and Cotton Club on this date in 1931! This ultra rare ad comes from one of Louis’s personal scrapbooks, compiled by Louis himself and future third wife Aloha Smith (listed as “Secretary”!). Great pic of Pops, too!

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