Charles Parker

PL 's taste in jazz was strong and partisan. He admired a long roster of names: from Chris Barber to Sidney Bechet , Fats Waller , Duke Ellington , and Louis Armstrong , even Charlie Parker

MRM told a friend that she expected immortality not from any unaided work but from her Mary Queen of Scots ' Farewell to France, based on a poem written in French by the queen...

The opera Sadak and Kalasrade; or, The Waters of Oblivion was performed at the English Opera House , London, with libretto by MRM and music by Charles Parker .

PL loved cricket, photography, and jazz. His tastes in jazz, as in literature and art, were explicitly anti-modernist (he linked together, as merely diverting, Parker , Pound or Picasso), but perhaps more flexible and...