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Bird Lives!
The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (yardbird) Parker
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By Ross Russell
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“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
Genre:
- On Sale
- Mar 22, 1996
- Page Count
- 432 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo
- ISBN-13
- 9780306806797
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