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My Life in E-flat (Paperback)
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My Life in E-flat (Paperback)
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My Life in E-flat is the memoir of a woman who witnessed some of
the most important movements in the history of jazz. Through her
autobiography, Chan Parker provides intimate insights into the
music and into life with Charlie Parker, the key figure in the
development of bebop and one of the most important of all jazz
musicians. Chan Parker was born Beverly Dolores Berg in New York
City at the height of the Jazz Age. Her father was a producer of
vaudeville shows and her mother was a dancer in Florenz Ziegfeld's
Midnight Frolic. Parker became part of the jazz culture as a
nightclub dancer and later as the wife of jazz saxophonists Charlie
Parker and then Phil Woods. In a moving and candid portrait of
Charlie Parker, the author describes in harrowing detail a man of
incredible talent besieged with addictions and
self-destructiveness. She painfully recounts his death at the age
of 35 while married to her and its effect on her life as well as on
the musical world. Parker's honest portrait of one of the most
gifted musicians in jazz provides unique insight into the history
of the music and the difficulties faced by African American
performers during the 1940s. Parker also reflects on her struggle
to find her own voice and on her work with Clint Eastwood on the
film biography of Charlie Parker, Bird (1988).
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