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Bird Lives! The High Life And Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
open our order pageRoss Russell
Da Capo Press, 1996 (first published in 1973)
Paperback.414pp. b&w illustrations
£13.50

"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society." - RALPH GLEASON

ROSS RUSSELL is the author of The Sound, a novel of the jazz world, and Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest. In 1946 he formed Dial Records, heading the company for a decade, during which time he released records by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.

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Chasin' The Bird by Brian Priestley
The Charlie Parker Companion edited by Carl Woideck
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