KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING: THE RISE AND TIMES OF CHARLIE PARKER

KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING: THE RISE AND TIMES OF CHARLIE PARKERKansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, 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

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Large type / Large print edition (October 5

Publication date : May 2

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781936399000

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