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Kansas City Lightning
- The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Engelsk Paperback
Kansas City Lightning
- The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Engelsk Paperback

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“A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post

A stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, 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 he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four.

Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Stanley Crouch recreates Parker’s Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story.

With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780062005618
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0062005618
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2014
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
203mm
Højde:
137mm
Forlag:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2014
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge