The lore of jazz is filled with operatic episodes, none larger or more dramatic than the last days of Charlie Parker. His sad death, 56 years ago this month, in a Fifth Avenue apartment, is well known among music fans for its tabloid stew of tragedy, scandal, rumor and innuendo. “Cool Blues,” presented by the New Federal Theater at the Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, riffs intriguingly on the historical record, hewing closely to the facts yet, as a work of fiction, not limiting itself to them. Read complete story from the New York Times.
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