Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker
Autor Robert Reisneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 1977
More
than
to
any
other
musician,
the
credit
for
the
birth
of
modern
jazz
belongs
to
Charles
"Yardbird"
Parker--known
to
his
friends
and
fans
simply
as
"Bird."
Parker's
virtuoso
technique,
melodic
genius,
and
inspired
improvisations
helped
launch
a
whole
new
era
in
jazz,
an
era
that
began
with
bop
and
culminated
in
the
"cool"
or
modern
jazz
of
the
fifties.
His
brilliant
handling
of
the
alto
saxophone
inspired
a
generation
of
jazz
musicians;
without
him,
there
would
have
been
no
John
Coltrane,
no
Ornette
Coleman,
no
jazz
as
we
know
it
today.
Parker
died
in
1955
at
the
age
of
thirty-five.
He
left
behind
a
rich
legacy
of
musical
innovation
and
a
legend
of
self-destructive
dissipation
that
made
him
a
votive
hero
of
the
hipsters
and
the
beat
generation.
For
this
first
full-length
reminiscence,
Reisner
interviewed
eighty-one
of
Parker's
friends,
relatives,
and
fellow
performers.
From
Charlie
Mingus,
one
of
the
few
real
innovators
since
Bird,
and
Dizzy
Gillespie,
whom
Parker
once
called
"the
other
half
of
my
heart,"
to
jazz
historian
Rudi
Blesh
and
Parker's
mother,
each
remembers
Bird
in
his
or
her
own
special
way.
Thus
from
the
shards
and
splinters
of
firsthand
reminiscence
emerges
a
telling
mosaic
of
Parker's
brief
but
intense
career:
the
indulgences
in
drugs
and
alcohol;
the
legendary
bouts
of
lovemaking;
the
temperamental
behavior
on
and
off
the
bandstand;
the
jam
sessions
at
the
Harlem
jazz
club
Minton's
Playhouse
with
Miles
Davis,
Dizzy
Gillespie,
and
Thelonious
Monk;
and
the
historic
firing
from
Birdland,
the
club
which
took
its
name
from
this
larger-than-life
musician
and
man.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780306800696
ISBN-10: 0306800691
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Paperback.
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
ISBN-10: 0306800691
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Paperback.
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Notă biografică
The
late
Robert
Reisner
was
a
jazz
impresario
and
former
curator-librarian
of
the
Institute
of
Jazz
Studies.