Charlie Parker played be bop / by Raschka, Christopher

“…Charlie Parker played bebop.…”

Music and Magic : Charlie Parker, Trickster Lives!. by Salamone, Frank A.

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Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / by Giddins, Gary

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Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / by Giddins, Gary

Bird : the life and music of Charlie Parker / by Haddix, Chuck

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Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / by Giddins, Gary

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Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / by Giddins, Gary

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Celebrating Bird : The Triumph of Charlie Parker

“…Triumph of Charlie Parker.…”

Chasin' the Bird : the life and legacy of Charlie Parker / by Priestley, Brian, 1946-

Chasin' the bird : the life and legacy of Charlie Parker / by Priestley, Brian, 1946-

“…Charlie Parker.…”
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Kansas City lightning : the rise and times of Charlie Parker / by Crouch, Stanley

Portrait of Percy Grainger / by Gillies, Malcolm

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Going for jazz : musical practices and American ideology / by Gebhardt, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "But play you must" -- Sidney Bechet : the virtuosity of construction -- Charlie Parker : the virtuosity of speed -- Ornette Coleman : the virtuosity of illusion -- Epilogue : "A tune beyond ourselves."…”

My life in E-flat / by Parker, Chan

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From swing to soul : an illustrated history of African American popular music from 1930 to 1960 / by Barlow, William, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Robert Johnson -- Memphis Minnie -- T-Bone Walker -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Fats Waller -- Charlie Parker -- Billie Holiday -- Louis Jordan -- Nat King Cole -- Dinah Washington -- Sam Cooke.…”

Lee Konitz : conversations on the improviser's art / by Hamilton, Andy, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Early life and career -- Formative influences : Lennie Tristano, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young -- Working with Tristano -- Early collaborators : Miles Davis and Warne Marsh -- The 1950s : Stan Kenton and early projects as leader -- The art of improvisation -- The 1960s : Motion -- The instrument -- The 1970s -- The material : standards, blues, and free -- The 1980s to the present.…”
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Bebop to cool : context, ideology, and musical identity / by Meadows, Eddie S.

Table of Contents: “…I: New thoughts, new directions -- Sociocultural context -- Ideology -- Musical appropriation -- The transformation to bebop -- II: Bebop: Articulating language and identity -- Playing bebop -- General musical characteristics of bebop -- Bebop scales -- The musical language of Dizzy Gillespie -- The musical language of Charlie Parker -- The musical language of Thelonious Monk -- III: Articulating language and identity -- Cool jazz -- The musical language of Miles Davis -- The musical language of Stan Getz -- The musical language of Lennie Tristano.…”

Barney, Bradley, and Max : sixteen portraits in jazz / by Balliett, Whitney

Table of Contents: “…-- Bob's your uncle (George Shearing) -- Herr professor (Walter Norris) -- Goodbye oompah (Harvey Phillips) -- Fortieth (Benny Goodman) -- Aesthetic vitamins (Ruby Braff) -- Bird (Charlie Parker) -- A difficult instrument (Buddy De Franco) -- First and last (Louis Bellson)…”

Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- "Not only a new art form but a new reason for living" -- "As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm" : hot collecting across the color line -- Hearing the "noisy lostness" : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”

Nica's dream : the life and legend of the jazz baroness / by Kastin, David