Bibliograph

Kansas City lightning, the rise and times of Charlie Parker, Stanley Crouch

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Kansas City lightning, the rise and times of Charlie Parker, Stanley Crouch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kansas City lightning

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

827260001

Responsibility statement

Stanley Crouch

Sub title

the rise and times of Charlie Parker

Summary

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 34. In this book, the first of two volumes, 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

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Rise and times of Charlie Parker

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