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Iconic Saxophone Of Charlie 'Bird' Parker Comes Home To Nest At Kansas City's Jazz Museum

The plastic Grafton alto saxophone that Charlie Parker played during a 1953 performance has returned to its place in the American Jazz Museum. Charlie Parker’s Grafton alto saxophone has returned to ...
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Charlie Parker's plastic sax, a Kansas City treasure, is revived — and never sounded better

After a former mayor spent $144,000 of public money on the synthetic saxophone, it became the centerpiece of a Kansas City institution. A reissued recording of the instrument, played by our greatest ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Long Journey of Charlie Parker’s Saxophone

American jazz musicians Charlie Parker, on alto sax, and Thelonious Monk, on piano, perform at the Open Door Cafe, in New York City on September 14, 1953. getty Images, Bob Parent / Contributor In ...
KSHB Kansas City

KC mayor, American Jazz Museum director deliver saxophone to Disney’s Epcot

TAMPA — While most of the attention on Kansas City, Missouri, during Super Bowl weekend is on the city’s football team, another “crown jewel” of the city also is in Florida. Mayor Quinton Lucas and ...
Telegraph & Argus

Charlie's angels

A rare white Grafton saxophone, a model played by the late jazz legend Charlie Parker, is to “sing” again. The sax – made of acrylic plastic, not brass, and now a design icon – is being restored by ...