Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Author(s): Ross Russell
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.
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Ross Russell is the author of "The Sound, " a novel of the jazz world, and "Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest." In 1946 he formed Dial Records, heading the company for a decade, during which he released records by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis.
* At Billy Bergs: An Obbligato Part I * Heavenly City * Getting Straight * Kansas City Mystique * Trials of Manhood * Modes * The Making of a Jazzman Part II * Woodshedding in the Ozarks * The Apple * Hootie * The Band That Played the Blues * The Bebop Laboratory * The Last of the Big Bands * The Street * A Dizzy Atmosphere Part III * The Independent Record Derby * Yardbird in Lotus Land * Sparrows Last Jump * Relaxin at Camarillo * Klactoveesedstene * Bird at Work * Birdland Part IV * Travels with a Genius * A Queer Night in Brussels * The Jazz Baroness * King Pleasure * Down and Out in New York * At the Hotel Stanhope * Coda: Six Pretty Horses Pullin Me
General Fields
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- : The Perseus Books Group
- : Da Capo Press Inc
- : 0.5
- : 01 February 1996
- : 210mm X 140mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ross Russell
- : Paperback
- : 9603
- : 788.73165092
- : 432
- : 32 photographs