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Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker
For this first full-length reminiscence, Reisner interviewed eighty-one of Parker's friends, relatives, and fellow performers. From Charlie Mingus, one of the few real innovators since Bird, and Dizzy Gillespie, whom Parker once called 'the other half of my heart, ' to jazz historian Rudi Blesh and Parker's mother, each remembers Bird in his or her own special way.
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
August 22nd 1977
by Da Capo Press
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Recently, at a used bookstore, I picked up an earlier edition of this book, published by a jazz book club in the early 60s, without realizing I had already read it ages ago. It's an oral biography of Charlie Parker--basically it is a bunch of different people telling stories and anecdotes about Parker. It's organized alphabetically by each storyteller's name, so parker's life does not unfold chronologically. Rather, this approach leads to a sort of biographical Rashomonism or cubism--you get a...more
One of the first "he said-she said" biographies (Edie, Please Kill Me, etc.) that are all the rage these days. Everybody from Dizzy Gillespie to Jackie McLean has a great story to tell about Charlie Parker. Bird once called someone a "no-color motherfucker"; his idea of a put-down was to tell you that you had NO color! Filled with tons of great photos.
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