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Bird Lives! - The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press Ed) Loot Price: R365
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Bird Lives! - The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press Ed): Ross Russell

Bird Lives! - The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press Ed)

Ross Russell

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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

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Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 1996
First published: March 1996
Authors: Ross Russell
Dimensions: 217 x 142 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 432
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-80679-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
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LSN: 0-306-80679-7
Barcode: 9780306806797

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