Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker by Brian Priestley

Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker

Brian Priestley

264 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography music dark slow-paced
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In his short life, Parker was one of the most influential musicians in jazz, and together with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, he was the main architect of the modern jazz revolution of the 1940s known as bebop. Addicted to drugs ...

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