Music of New York City concerts presented by City Parks Foundation and hosting performers of many kinds, is also a major part of New York's summer music scene, which also includes the July Intel New York Music Festival. There are numerous New York jazz festivals, including the Texaco New York Jazz Festival, Panasonic Village Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, and the free Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. The City Parks Foundation also presents a series of thirty free concerts in ten parks across all five boroughs of the city each summer. Roz Nixon founded Great Women in Jazz in 2001. It is a month-long festival
Charlie Parker with Strings a string setting. Plans were made to release the results of the sessions as a ten-inch LP. Sessions from November 30, 1949, yielded the first "Charlie Parker With Strings" album ("Mercury MG-35010"), consisting of six songs total, all of which were standards. The success of the first album led to additional sessions on July 5, 1950, resulting in another long-playing album also entitled "Charlie Parker With Strings" ("Mercury MGC-109"), consisting of eight tracks, also all standards. In 1995, Verve Records reissued these fourteen recordings for compact disc, including an additional ten tracks with Parker also accompanied by strings. Five date