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Kansas City lightning : the rise and times of Charlie Parker /

The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. 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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crouch, Stanley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Parker, Charlie, > 1920-1955.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Saxophonists > United States > Biography.
African American musicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Musicians, Black > United States > Biography.

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