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The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of a social critic, and the narrative...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other human being." Like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, he was a transitional composer and improviser who ushered in...
3) Bird & Diz
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
4) Bird
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Warner Home Video
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English
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The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
8) Bird
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
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Studies in jazz volume no. 24
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Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
16) Charlie Parker
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Series
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Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Profiles the life and career of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
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