Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
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Book Overview
Within days of Charlie "Bird" Parker's death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0688059511
ISBN13:9780688059514
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:William Morrow & Company
Length:128 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:3.5" x 9.0" x 12.0"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I had a wonderful time reading this book. It's more of a *long* essay than it is a book. The writing is excellent, and there are lots of wonderful photographs interspersed within. I don't know if it really matters, but for what it's worth I read part of this book while sitting at a table at Birdland on 46th Street in NYC waiting for my favorite up and coming piano player, David Epstein, to return from break to play another set. I have three books by Gary Giddins and like him so much I'm going to buy more of his books. By coinicidence I saw a video recently on the life of Charlie Parker, and it used many of the same photographs that were used in this book. I am not aware of a tie in between the two products however. In conclusion, this book was enjoyable and I learned a great deal about Charlie Parker from the point of view of his personality and his character and what his life was like.
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