"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

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Russell, Ross.

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city, home of Lester Young, Benny Moten, Jack Teagarden, Andy Kirk, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Ben Webster, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker, to name a few. Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest is the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style, from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop.

Jazz Style In Kansas City And The Southwest

Arts & Photography

Music

Jazz style in Kansas City and the Southwest

University of California Press

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest (California Library Reprint Series)

this is the first thorough study of kansas city jazz, how it developed in isolation from new orleans, new york and chicago, and who were the people who grew there abd who did the infuences,

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest

This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.

'BIRD LIVES: HIGH LIFE AND HARD TIMES OF CHARLIE ''YARDBIRD'' PARKER'

Charterhouse

This work on Charlie Bird Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.

Bird Lives : High Life and Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker

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