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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Charlie Parker |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Giddins |
ISBN: | 9781452940786 1452940789 9780816690411 0816690413 |
OCLC Number: | 913842332 |
Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) : photographs |
Contents: | ContentsPrelude to the New Edition1. Bird Lives!2. Youth3. Apprenticeship4. Mastery5. Bird LivesAcknowledgmentsA Selected Discography of Long-Playing RecordsA Selected BibliographyPhoto CreditsIndex |
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"Giddins writes with something like Bird's bravado. . . . [Parker] can practically be heard ripping through 'Cherokee' and stewing over 'Koko' straight off the pages of this book." -L. A. Weekly "As penetrating a character study of Bird as any yet written." -New York Times "Since his death in 1955, myth-makers have sounded the bebop battle cry-Bird Lives!-but Giddins is the first biographer to make it sound true." -Village Voice "A major contribution to jazz biography . . . has the verve and adrenaline of its subject matter." -Ishmael Reed "A tribute . . . to Parker's gift and grief. Giddins gives the man his due." -Los Angeles Times Read more...


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- African American jazz musicians -- Biography.
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- Musiciens de jazz noirs américains -- Biographies.
- Musiciens de jazz -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
- African American jazz musicians
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