IT’S time to get into the swing of things with the 14th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which goes uptown to Harlem tomorrow and downtown to the East Village on Sunday. The two days of free concerts, which will include special celebrations for the 85th birthday of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton (above), take place at in neighborhoods where Parker lived and worked.

Tomorrow’s event at Marcus Garvey Park (3 p.m.; just south of the 125th Street shopping corridor along the axis of Fifth Avenue in central Harlem) features Hamilton, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, the Sonny Fortune Quartet and saxophonist Greg Osby. At Tompkins Square Park (3 p.m.; between Seventh and 10th streets and Avenue A and Avenue B) on Sunday, Hamilton returns along with Bronx percussionist Ray Mantilla, pianist-composer Joanne Brackeen and Puerto Rican-born, New York-based tenorist David Sanchez.