Charlie Parker was resuscitated at the Orion Room of the Green Lady Lounge for about an hour last Friday. Unfortunately, the jazz legend didn’t have anything new to say. Jeff Robinson fully inhabits the character of the troubled genius in his one man show Live Bird. Yet the lack of dramatic tension in the narrative vignette and the bromidic accolades about Kansas City’s jazz heyday are uninspiring. The show becomes fully engaging only when Robinson picks up a saxophone. Four patrons took in the play that was given an inadvertently appropriate soundtrack by the jazz band playing upstairs.
(Original image by Plastic Sax.)
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