Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

by Chuck Haddix

Book Overview

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." Like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, he was a transitional composer and improviser who ushered in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080890
• ISBN13: 9780252080890
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"