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the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

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An edition of Bird Lives (1972)

Bird lives

the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

1st Da Capo Press ed.

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  • 6 Want to read

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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Language
English
Pages
432

Previews available in: English

Subjects

Biography Jazz musicians Parker, charlie, 1920-1955

People

Charlie Parker (1920-1955) Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

Places

United States

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Bird lives: the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
1996, Da Capo Press
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Bird Lives
August 1976, Quartet Books
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Bird lives: the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker.
1973, Charterhouse
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Table of Contents

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
'Transcription of a Bird solo'
'Bird at 14 months'
'Bird on a pony, before the move from the suburbs'
'Charlie strung out on a 'burn', 1945'
'Charlie in sunglasses performing with the Earl Fatha' Hines Orchestra, 1943'
'Dizzy Gillespie'
'Photo of Charlie used for publicity'
'Doris and Charlie, Birdland, 1950'
'Charlie and Chan Richardson, Birdland, 1950'
'Charlie after his stay at Camarillo State Hospital, Hollywood, 1947'
'Charlie with his quintet, 1947'
'Charlie performing with strings, Birdland, 1950'
'Picture of Charlie's talented hands'
'Charlie in Sweden, 1950'
'Charlie jamming with Swedish musicians, 1950'
'Jam session with Mingus, Monk, and Haynes, Greenwich Village, ca. 1953'
'Bird'
'Lester Young'
'Charlie and Red Rodney, Kansas City, 1951'
'Billy Eckstine and Bird'
'Jay McShann in Kansas City'
'Erroll Garner, The Haig Club, Hollywood, 1947'
'Howard McGhee and his trumpet'
'Max Roach, Chicago, ca. 1948'
'Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Berg's, December 1945'
'Candid shot of Charlie, ca. 1947'
'Charlie eating at a Hollywood garden party, 1951'
'A 'very played out Bird', Hollywood, 1952'
'Charlie in his coffin, Harlem, 1955'
'Hand-written contract between Charlie and Dial Records, February 26, 1946'
'Another hand-written contract with Dial Records, April 3, 1946'
'Another transcription of a Bird solo'.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Charterhouse, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-383), discography (p. 284-388), and index.

Published in
New York
Series
African American music reference

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
788.7/3165/092, B
Library of Congress
ML419.P4 R9 1996

The Physical Object

Format
[electronic resource] :
Pagination
1 electronic resource (432 p.)
Number of pages
432

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL45356295M

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2971105W

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Excerpts

When Charlie Parker appeared on the jazz scene nobody knew much about him.
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