Ebook {Epub PDF} Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix

Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Music in American Life) - Kindle edition by Haddix, Chuck. Arts Photography Kindle eBooks @ www.doorway.ru Kindle. $ Hardcover. $ Paperback. $ Other sellers formats from $/5(36). Illustrated with several never-before-seen images, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker chronicles Parker's trials and triumphs: his struggles in Kansas City; his collaboration with Dizzy Gillespie that led to the development of bebop; his incarceration in the California State Mental Hospital at Camarillo; his rise to international acclaim; his stormy relationship with his fourth wife Chan; the death . Of the recent biographies on these two men, Haddix's new book, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker, takes the most straightforward approach by attempting to capture his life through documented facts. In Parker's youth, these are relatively few: his birth in ; his marriage to Rebecca Ruffin in , and the birth of his son, Francis Leon, in ; a dramatic automobile accident on Thanksgiving Day .

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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.". Come learn from author and radio host Chuck Haddix as he discusses his book, "Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker" this Thursday, November 4th at 4PM. Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker Charles Haddix Pages ISBN: University of Illinois Press Charlie Parker shares with delta blues legend Robert Johnson the lack of a comprehensive and academically-sound biography. Johnson's biographical material is strewn across several books, the earliest riddled with romance and inaccuracy, periodical articles and liner notes.