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Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker (Popular Music History)
Chasin' the Bird The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker - Popular Music History
Author: Brian Priestley
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 and alcohol, and with a tangled private life, Parker died young, and a legend grew up about his trag...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781845533298
ISBN-10: 1845533291
Publication Date: 6/1/2007
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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