Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Name: Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Brand: DEY STREET BOOKS
SKU: 9780062005595-V
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By Stanley Crouch

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four. Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker's Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.

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Number of Pages:: 384
Release Date:: 2013-09-24
Publication Date:: 2013-09-24
Publisher:: DEY STREET BOOKS
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0062005596
ISBN13:: 9780062005595
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 622 g
Height:: 159 cm
Width:: 236 cm
Thickness:: 38 cm

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