For this first full-length reminiscence, Reisner interviewed eighty-one of Parker's friends, relatives and fellow performers. From Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie, whom Parker once called "the other half of my heart," to jazz historian Rudi Blech and Parker's mother, each remembers Bird in his or her own special way.

The late ROBERT REISNER, jazz impresario and former curator-librarian of the Institute of Jazz Studies, also contributes a deeply felt personal testament to Parker's greatness, I Remember Bird.

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