Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker : with new & selected jazz poems / by Komunyakaa, Yusef

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The furies : two Charlie Parker novels / by Connolly, John, 1968-

“…Connolly, John, 1968- Charlie Parker thriller.…”
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The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / by Muyumba, Walton M.

Table of Contents: “…Movement I: Three ways of looking at a yardbird: Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Le Roi Jones/Amiri Baraka --…”
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Legends from camp : poems / by Inada, Lawson Fusao

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B Jenkins / by Moten, Fred

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Blues for bird / by Gray, James Martin

Lookin' for Bird in the big city / by Burleigh, Robert

Jazz A-B-Z / by Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Louis Armstrong -- Count Basie -- John Coltrane -- Miles Davis -- Duke Ellington -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Gerry Mulligan -- Abdullah Ibn Buhaina -- Jelly Roll Morton -- King Oliver -- Billie Holiday -- Charles Mingus -- Nat "King" Cole -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Parker -- Modern Jazz Quartet -- Sonny Rollins -- Sidney Bechet -- Thelonious Monk -- Eubie Blake -- Sarah Vaughan -- Fats Waller -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Lester Young -- Dizzy Gillespie.…”

The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / by Muyumba, Walton M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Vamping 'til ready -- Three ways of looking at a yardbird : Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Black is, black ain't : violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Cutting session : Baldwin as prizefighting intellectual, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Improvising over the changes : improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.…”
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Wales unchained : literature, politics and identity in the American century / by Williams, Daniel G.

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence; 2 Black and White: Boxing, Race and Modernity; 3 Blood Jumps: Dylan Thomas, Charlie Parker and 1950s America; 4 Class and Identity: Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson; 5 To Know the Divisions: The Identity of Raymond Williams; 6 'American Freaks': Welsh Poets and the United States; 7 Singing Unchained: Language, Nation and Multiculturalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.…”
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Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel / by Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Elevator, silence, overweight -- Golden beasts -- Rain gear INKlings, laundry -- The library -- Tabulations, evolution, sex drive -- Shadow -- Skull, Lauren Bacall, library -- The colonel -- Appetite, disappointment, Leningrad -- The wall -- Dressing, watermelon, chaos -- A map of the end of the world -- Frankfurt, door, independent operants -- Woods -- Whiskey, torture, Turgenev -- The coming of winter -- End of the world, Charlie Parker, time bomb -- Dreamreading -- Hamburgers, skyline, deadline -- The death of the beasts -- Bracelets, Ben Johnson, devil -- Gray smoke -- Holes, leeches, tower -- Shadow grounds -- Meal, elephant factory, trap -- Power station -- Encyclopedia wand, immortality, paperclips -- Musical instruments -- Lake, Masaomi Kondo, panty hose -- Hole -- Fares, police, detergent -- Shadow in the throes of death -- Rainy-day laundry, car rental, Bob Dylan -- Skulls -- Nail clippers, butter sauce, iron vase -- Accordion -- Lights, introspection, cleanliness -- Escape -- Popcorn, Lord Jim, extinction -- Birds.…”

The poetry and poetics of Amiri Baraka : the jazz aesthetic / by Harris, William J., 1942-

Scoring race : jazz, fiction, and Francophone Africa / by Higginson, Pim

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The collected poems of Philip Lamantia / by Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005

Table of Contents: “…Bird: Apparition of Charlie Parker --…”
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American Negro poetry /

Table of Contents: “…; The day-breakers ; Golgotha is a mountain ; Idolatry ; Reconnaissance ; Southern mansion ; Nocturne at Bethesda -- Countee Cullen : Heritage (for Harold Jackman) ; That bright chimeric beast ; Yet do I marvel ; Four epitaphs ; Simon the Cyrenian speaks -- Donald Jeffrey Hayes : Appoggiatura ; Benediction ; Haven ; Poet ; Threnody ; Alien ; Pastourelle -- Jonathan Brooks : The resurrection -- Frank Marshall Davis : Flowers of darkness ; Four glimpses of night -- Waring Cuney : No images ; Threnody ; Finis -- Helene Johnson : Poem ; The road ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Invocation -- Richard Wright : Between the world and me ; Hokku poems -- Charles Enoch Wheeler : Adjuration -- Pauli Murray : Without name ; Dark testament -- Robert Hayden : A ballad of remembrance ; Witch doctor ; Middle passage ; Frederick Douglass ; Veracruz -- Dudley Randall : Perspectives ; I loved you once (from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin) -- Owen Dodson : Sorrow is the only faithful one ; Drunken lover ; Sickle pears (for Glidden Parker) ; Hymn written after Jeremiah preached to me in a dream ; Yardbird's skull (for Charlie Parker) ; Sailors on leave -- Leslie M. Collins : Stevedore -- Margaret Walker : For my people ; Molly means ; October journey -- Frank Yerby : The fishes and the poet's hands ; Weltschmerz ; Wisdom ; You are a part of me ; Calm after storm -- Samuel Allen : A moment please ; To satch -- Catherine Cater : Here and now -- Gwendolyn Brooks : Flags ; The old-marrieds ; Piano after war ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall, 1957 -- Bruce McM. …”

Kerouac on Record : a Literary Soundtrack /

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