Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker
Giddins, Gary2013
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Within days of Charlie 'Bird' Parker's death at the age of 34, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: 'Bird Lives'. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the country at the time of his death, Parker set the standard many musicians strove to reach - though he never enjoyed the same popular success that greeted many of his imitators. This is a biography of his life and career.
Main title:
Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / Gary Giddins.
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Edition:
Revised edition / with a new introduction by the author.
Imprint:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Collation:
208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987.Includes discography, bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780816690411 (pbk)
Dewey class:
788.73165
Language:
English
BRN:
1815055
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