Jazzmobile's Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker - A Conversation With The Author Stanley Crouch And Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin

Jazzmobile presents Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker: A Conversation with author Farah Jasmine Griffin, a discussion on Charlie Parker with Stanley Crouch and Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin. Minton’s, 206 West 118th Street.  $10 admission; 2 drink minimum. www.mintonsharlem.com. (212) 243-2222. Reservations required.

Kansas City Lightening: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. A syndicated columnist Mr. Crouch is also President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

Part of the fourth annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival presented by the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile in collaboration with Columbia University.