One of the people who heard Elvis perform at these shows was Colonel Tom Parker.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Charlie Parker was given a permit to play in New York again two years later.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Ella Fitzgerald was greatly influenced by the experimental music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Some recent ones include singer Norah Jones, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and reporter Anderson Cooper.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Charlie Parker was born August twenty-ninth,nineteen twenty, in the middle western state of Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

as Charlie Parker's followers called him. Parker knew those performances might be his last chance to re-claim the success he had gained only a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

He was thirty-four. Charlie Parker's influence on modern jazz music continues to live.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

That year,Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie took the new jazz sound to California.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

It was in December, nineteen thirty-nine, that Charlie Parker made this discovery.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Today,we tell about one of America's greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Charlie Parker said: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts,your wisdom.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Elvis signed an agreement that Colonel Parker would organize his appearances.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Parker was considered the greatest of the bebop jazz musicians.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Sarah Jessica Parker stars again as Carrie Bradshaw.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

She grew up near Denver,Colorado, listening to recordings by John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

For that to work, Parker says the Skolkova initiative must be copied throughout Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

John Parker is with the National Defense University.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18