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| Author | : Dave Chisholm |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2020-11-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1940878381 |
The life and legends of Charlie Parker, told through the perspectives of those who knew him: a brother, a fellow artist, a photographer, a lover, a student, and a record store owner.
| Author | : Brian Priestley |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2007-05-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195327098 |
Priestley offers new insight into Parker's career, beginning as a teenager single-mindedly devoted to mastering the saxophone through his death at 34 in such wretched condition that the doctor listed his age as 53.
| Author | : Dave Chisholm |
| Publisher | : Z2 Comics |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2022-01-25 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 9781940878898 |
What begins as one woman’s search for her own artistic courage unravels into a stunning look into what jazz music can teach out about our search for the truest version of ourselves. For decades, seasoned players on the scene have spoken in whispered tones about The Blue: a mysterious meeting place for jazz history - a place where ghosts from this music's storied past spring to life for those courageous enough to enter. When Jessie Choi's mentor Jimmy Hightower collapses at a gig and loses consciousness, she finds herself reluctantly pulled back into the jazz scene she abandoned years earlier. In investigating the music and mystery behind Jimmy's comatose state, every thread leads to the same question: is Jimmy somehow trapped in this enigma known as The Blue? In her search to save her teacher, Jessie rubs shoulders with legends, uncovers the secret history of Blue Note Records, and faces her own deepest fears.
| Author | : Chan Parker |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2021-11-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 164336278X |
A memoir of the Jazz Age and a life profoundly influenced by it My Life in E-flat is the remarkable memoir of a woman who witnessed some of the most important movements in the history of jazz. Through her autobiography, Chan Parker provides intimate insights into the music and into life with Charlie Parker, the key figure in the development of bebop and one of the most important of all jazz musicians. Born Beverly Dolores Berg in New York City at the height of the Jazz Age, Parker's father was a producer of vaudeville shows and her mother was a dancer in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. Parker became part of the jazz culture as a nightclub dancer and later as the wife of jazz saxophonists Charlie Parker and then Phil Woods. In a moving and candid portrait of Charlie Parker, the author describes in harrowing detail a man of incredible talent besieged with addictions and self-destructiveness. She painfully recounts his death at the age of 35 while married to her and its effect on her life as well as on the musical world. Parker's honest portrait of one of the most gifted musicians in jazz provides unique insight into the history of the music and the difficulties faced by African American performers during the 1940s. Parker also reflects on her struggle to find her own voice and on her work with Clint Eastwood on the film biography of Charlie Parker, Bird (1988).
| Author | : Eunmi Shim |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780472113460 |
The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history
| Author | : Paolo Parisi |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2013-03-28 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1448182034 |
'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...' John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, his raw talent and passion for experimentation inaugurated a new movement in music. Positioned at the beating heart of the 50s and 60s jazz world, Coltrane and his quartet created some of the most innovative and expressive music of the age, including the hit album My Favorite Things and the landmark work A Love Supreme. Juxtaposing scenes from Coltrane's personal life - his military career, addictions, political activism and love affairs - against snapshots of his major recordings, Coltrane evokes an extraordinary life and the momentous historical events that formed its backdrop. It is a graphic novel that echoes his work in its structure and style, and forms a testament to a pioneer and legend, whose music continues to inspire to this day.
| Author | : Erin Loechner |
| Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2017-01-10 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 0310345685 |
Chasing Slow models HGTV star Erin Loechner's journey to help you break out of the faster-better-stronger trap and make small changes to refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to what matters most. You're here, but you want to be there. So you spend your life narrowing this divide, and you call this your race, your journey, your path. You live your days tightening your boot straps, wiping the sweat from your brow, chasing undiscovered happiness just around the bend. And on and on you run. Viral sensation and HGTV.com star Erin Loechner knows about the chase. Before turning 30, she'd earned the title "The Nicest Girl Online" as she was praised for her authentic voice and effortless style. Her HGTV web show garnered over one million fans worldwide, and her client list includes Walt Disney World, IKEA, Martha Stewart and Home Depot. The New York Times applauded her, her friends and church admired her, and her husband and baby adored her. She had arrived at the ultimate destination. So why did she feel so lost? Through a series of steep climbs--her husband's brain tumor, bankruptcy, family loss, and public criticism--Erin learns just how much strength it takes to surrender it all, and to veer right into grace. In Chasing Slow, Erin upgrades her life through downsizing--her stuff, her obligations, her fears, her personal metric of "perfect." And ultimately, her invitation becomes yours: to turn away from the fast and frenzy, and find freedom in a new-fashioned lifestyle defined by grace. Life's answers are not always hidden where they seem. It's time to venture off the beaten path to see that we’ve already been given everything we need. We've already arrived. You see? You'll see.
| Author | : Gary Giddins |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2013-09-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1452940797 |
Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the country at the time of his death, Parker set the standard many musicians strove to reach—though he never enjoyed the same popular success that greeted many of his imitators. Today, the power of Parker’s inventions resonates undiminished; and his influence continues to expand. Celebrating Bird is the groundbreaking and award-winning account of the life and legend of Charlie Parker from renowned biographer and critic Gary Giddins, whom Esquire called “the best jazz writer in America today.” Richly illustrated and drawing primarily from original sources, Giddins overturns many of the myths that have grown up around Parker. He cuts a fascinating portrait of the period, from Parker’s apprentice days in the 1930s in his hometown of Kansas City to the often difficult years playing clubs in New York and Los Angeles, and reveals how Parker came to embody not only musical innovation and brilliance but the rage and exhilaration of an entire generation. Fully revised and with a new introduction by the author, Celebrating Bird is a classic of jazz writing that the Village Voice heralded as “a celebration of the highest order”—a portrayal of a jazz virtuoso whose gargantuan talent was haunted by his excesses and a view into the ravishing art of one of jazz’s most commanding and remarkable figures.
| Author | : David Fleming |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2012-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1475919441 |
East of the land of the Elves is the land of Sweet Smellums, lives a family of hedgehogs by the name of Fipple Berry. Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry is their only son, and he has three favorite things: eating Blue Berry muffins, fishing, and playing with his best friend, a polar bear named Norry Norris Fruit Bean. On one very special day, Charlie Blue Berry wakes up in celebration, because this day, is the last day of school before the summer! All year long Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry tries to listen to his parents and to do the right thing, but it isn't easy always. Thinking that his Mother did not notice, Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry does something his Mother asked him not to, and spends the whole day feeling bad about it. How will Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry explain what he has done? Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry feels so bad about what he has done, he tells his self he will never do anything bad again, but then Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry makes another mistake...a big mistake...........Children growing up make a lot of mistakes. Learning from our mistakes and telling the truth about things that we have done is always the right thing to do! We will must never be afraid to tell our parents when we have done something wrong, they love us, and wants to show us the right way.
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| Release | : 2013 |
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