A biographical portrait of the jazz alto saxophonist.
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Gary Giddins is a columnist for the Village Voice and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz. He is also the author of a biography of Bing Crosby. His work has won numerous prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, five ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards, and an American Book Award. He lives in New York City.
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GARY GIDDINS is a long-time columnist for the Village Voice and a preeminent jazz critic who received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998. His other books include Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won an unparalleled six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting.
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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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THE WITNESS to his death heard a clap of thunder at the moment of Charlie Parker's passing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Charlie Parker, New York, Kansas City, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Ben Webster, Buster Smith, Los Angeles, Tommy Potter, Gene Ramey, Three Deuces, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Fifty-second Street, Got Rhythm, Bud Powell, Don Byas, Down Beat, Hot Lips Page, Savoy Ballroom, Benny Carter, Budd Johnson New!
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THE WITNESS to his death heard a clap of thunder at the moment of Charlie Parker's passing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Charlie Parker, New York, Kansas City, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Ben Webster, Buster Smith, Los Angeles, Tommy Potter, Gene Ramey, Three Deuces, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Fifty-second Street, Got Rhythm, Bud Powell, Don Byas, Down Beat, Hot Lips Page, Savoy Ballroom, Benny Carter, Budd Johnson New!
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- "To Bird with love" by Chan Parker in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Red Cross (Charities) by Stephen Parker on page 8, and page 9
- Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker (Da Capo Paperback) by Robert Reisner in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Body And Soul (Brown Skin Books) by Jade Williams on page 2, and Back Matter
- The Story of Jazz (Galaxy Books) by Marshall W. Stearns in Back Matter
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- Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Jazz & American Culture) by Krin Gabbard on page 187, and Back Matter
- Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 by Kenny Mathieson on page 49, and Back Matter
- Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Sascha Feinstein on page 91, and page 113
- Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community by Charles D. Gerard in Back Matter
- The Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker: A Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference) by Edward Komara in Back Matter
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