Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker, Gary Giddins

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Celebrating Bird The Triumph Of Charlie Parker

Gary Giddins
Da Capo Press, 1998 (first published in 1987)
Paperback.128pp. b&w illustrations (230mmx306mm)
£14.50

Celebrating Bird CONTENTS:
Bird Lives!; Youth; Apprenticeship; Mastery; Bird Lives; Selected Discography; Selected Bibliography

GARY GIDDINS is the author of many jazz books, including Visions of Jazz, and a biography of Louis Armstrong.

FURTHER READING

The Charlie Parker Companion edited by Carl Woideck
Chasin' The Bird by Brian Priestley
Charlie Parker by Carl Woideck
The Birth of Bebop by Scott DeVeaux
Giant Steps by Kenny Mathieson
Bebop Scott Yanow's guide to bebop's recording legacy
Groovin' High Alyn Shipton's biography of Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Donald Maggin's life of Gillespie

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