Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie

Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (yardbird) Parker

"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society."--Ralph Gleason

"Inspired by great affection and dedication, Bird Lives! provides a vivid and accurate picture not only of the saxophonist-composer as artist and human being but of his zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. Parker was an immensely complex personality; saint and satyr, loving father and footloose vagabond, with a limitless appetite for sex, music, food, pills, heroin, liquor, life. A man of vast influence, the most admired and imitated creator of the mid-1940s bop revolution, he was forced to work in dives, reduced to bumming dollars when he should have been respected as a reigning virtuoso. . . . A sensitive, penetrating portrait."--Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times

"One of the very few jazz books that deserve to be called literature . . . perhaps the finest writing on jazz to be found anywhere. . . . Those aware of Parker's genius cannot do without this book."--Grover Sales, Saturday Review
Country USA
Brand Da Capo Press
Manufacturer Da Capo
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 32 photographs
IsAdultProduct
Height 8.5
Length 5.5
Weight 1.04940036712
Width 0.98
ReleaseDate 1996-03-22
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Da Capo Press
Manufacturer	Da Capo
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	32 photographs
IsAdultProduct
Height	8.5
Length	5.5
Weight	1.04940036712
Width	0.98
ReleaseDate	1996-03-22
NumberOfItems	1

Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (yardbird) Parker

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