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Bird Lives!

By Ross Russell

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Bird Lives!

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
1996-03-22
Publication Date:
1996-03-01
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306806797
ISBN13:
9780306806797
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
541 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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