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Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker

Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574139
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker written by Yusef Komunyakaa and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto "Testimony." Paying homage to Charlie Parker, "Testimony" was commissioned for a radio drama with original music by eminent Australian composer and saxophonist Sandy Evans. Remarkably rich and evocative, encompassing a wide range of musical energy and performers, this moving affirmation of Parker's genius became a milestone in contemporary radio theater. Twenty-eight additional poems spanning the breadth of Komunyakaa's career are included, including two never previously published. Accompanying the poems are interviews and essays featuring Komunyakaa, Evans, radio producer Christopher Williams, jazz critic Miriam Zolin, jazz writer and editor Sascha Feinstein, and musical director, Paul Grabowsky. Sascha Feinstein writes the foreword. The print edition includes two CDs with the entire Australian Broadcast Company recording of Testimony, ebook contains imbedded audio. Check for the online reader's companion at testimony.site.wesleyan.edu.

Celebrating Bird

Author : Gary Giddins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452940797
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Bird written by Gary Giddins and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bird Lives!

Author : Ross Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Bird Lives! written by Ross Russell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chasin' the Bird

Author : Brian Priestley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195327098
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Chasin' the Bird written by Brian Priestley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Charlie Parker - The Complete Scores

Author : Charlie Parker
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1705108245
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker - The Complete Scores written by Charlie Parker and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Transcribed Score). Celebrate "Bird" with this collection of 40 full note-for-note transcriptions of classic performances for saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass and drums. Includes: Anthropology * Au Privave * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Bird Feathers * Blues for Alice * Chasing the Bird * Donna Lee * K.C. Blues * Leap Frog * Marmaduke * Ornithology * Scrapple from the Apple * Steeplechase * Yardbird Suite * and more.

Charlie Parker - Omnibook

Author : Charlie Parker
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495032329
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker - Omnibook written by Charlie Parker and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Jazz Transcriptions). The Omnibook has become the book to turn to when you want to master the Bird. Includes 60 solos such as Anthropology * Au Privave (Nos. 1 and 2) * Billie's Bounce * Blues for Alice * Chi Chi * Confirmation * Constellation * Dewey Square * Donna Lee * Ko Ko * Moose the Mooch * Ornithology * Scrapple from the Apple * Shawnuff * Yardbird Suite * and more. Transcribed by Jamey Aebersold and Ken Slone. Includes chord symbols, metronome markings, record information, and practice suggestions. "One of jazz education's holy scriptures." JazzTimes

The Charlie Parker Real Book

Author : Charlie Parker
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540038645
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Charlie Parker Real Book written by Charlie Parker and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). Features 57 signature songs that this bebop genius either composed or co-wrote, all in Real Book style! Includes: Anthropology * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * The Bird * Bird of Paradise * Blues for Alice * Confirmation * Donna Lee * Kim * Ko Ko * Moose the Mooche * Now's the Time * Ornithology * Parker's Mood * Scrapple from the Apple * Shawnuff * Yardbird Suite * and more. All Hal Leonard Real Books feature time-tested songs in accurate arrangements in the famous easy-to-read, hand-written notation.

Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World

Author : Leo T. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764355868
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World written by Leo T. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949-65, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This illustrated book offers a history of this legendary jazz club, and presents the greats who played its stage in capsule biographies, vintage photos, and rare memorabilia. Named after legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, the club showcased memorable double and triple bills lasting until dawn. Many classic live recordings were made at "The Jazz Corner of the World," such as the "A Night at Birdland" by the Art Blakey Quintet, "Basie at Birdland," and "Coltrane, Live at Birdland." Birdland established itself as the one place that every jazz musician had to play. Greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Art Tatum, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, and Sonny Rollins, to name only a few, graced its stage.

Bird

Author : Chuck Haddix
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095170
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Bird written by Chuck Haddix and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other human being." Like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, he was a transitional composer and improviser who ushered in a new era of jazz by pioneering bebop and influenced subsequent generations of musicians. Meticulously researched and written, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker tells the story of his life, music, and career. This new biography artfully weaves together firsthand accounts from those who knew him with new information about his life and career to create a compelling narrative portrait of a tragic genius. While other books about Parker have focused primarily on his music and recordings, this portrait reveals the troubled man behind the music, illustrating how his addictions and struggles with mental health affected his life and career. He was alternatively generous and miserly; a loving husband and father at home but an incorrigible philanderer on the road; and a chronic addict who lectured younger musicians about the dangers of drugs. Above all he was a musician, who overcame humiliation, disappointment, and a life-threatening car wreck to take wing as Bird, a brilliant improviser and composer. With in-depth research into previously overlooked sources and illustrated with several never-before-seen images, Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker corrects much of the misinformation and myth about one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century.

Charlie Parker for Guitar (Songbook)

Author : Mark Voelpel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476857296
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker for Guitar (Songbook) written by Mark Voelpel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). This fascinating new book will let you explore the music of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. For the first time ever, saxophonist Charlie Parker's legendary "heads" and improvised solos have been meticulously adapted for the guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes these Parker classics complete with detailed performance notes: Anthropology * Au Privave * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Bloomdido * Blues (Fast) * Blues for Alice * Cheryl * Confirmation * Donna Lee * K.C. Blues * Kim * Ko Ko * Moose the Mooche * Now's the Time * Ornithology * Parker's Mood * Scrapple from the Apple * Yardbird Suite.

This Jazz Man

Author : Karen Ehrhardt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547545746
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book This Jazz Man written by Karen Ehrhardt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.

Why Jazz?

Author : Kevin Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199753105
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Why Jazz? written by Kevin Whitehead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering an entertaining guide for both novice listeners and long-time fans. Organized chronologically in a convenient question and answer format, this terrific resource makes jazz accessible to a broad audience, and especially to readers who've found the music bewildering or best left to the experts. Yet Why Jazz? is much more than an informative Q&A; it concisely traces the century-old history of this American and global art form, from its beginnings in New Orleans up through the current postmodern period. Whitehead provides brief profiles of the archetypal figures of jazz--from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis and John Zorn--and illuminates their contributions as musicians, performers, and composers. Also highlighted are the building blocks of the jazz sound--call and response, rhythmic contrasts, personalized performance techniques and improvisation--and discussion of how visionary musicians have reinterpreted these elements to continually redefine jazz, ushering in the swing era, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, and the avant-garde. Along the way, Why Jazz? provides helpful plain-English descriptions of musical terminology and techniques, from "blue notes" to "conducted improvising." And unlike other histories which haphazardly cover the stylistic branches of jazz that emerged after the 1960s, Why Jazz? groups latter-day musical trends by decade, the better to place them in historical context. Whether read in self-contained sections or as a continuous narrative, this compact reference presents a trove of essential information that belongs on the shelf of anyone who's ever been interested in jazz.

Swing to Bop

Author : Ira Gitler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198020708
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Swing to Bop written by Ira Gitler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period, to preserve for posterity their recollections of the transition in jazz from the big band era to the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed, including both the acclaimed and the unrecorded, tell in their own words how this renegade music emerged, why it was a turning point in American jazz, and how it influenced their own lives and work. Placing jazz in historical context, Gitler demonstrates how the mood of the nation in its post-Depression years, racial attitudes of the time, and World War II combined to shape the jazz of today.

The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

Author : Richard Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076636
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music written by Richard Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, wide-ranging book on how Miles Davis's seminal 1959 jazz album "Kind of Blue" revolutionized music and culture in the 20th century.

Hot Jazz Special

Author :
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Jazz Special written by and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab your porkpie hat and groove to the swinging artwork and syncopated text of this introduction to nine of the hottest jazz artists of all time. Join young Henry at the Body & Soul Cafe and enter a world of hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies—where to jump is to jive and to bop is to be! Some of the greatest names in jazz are about to hit the scene, ready to blow those blues away. Meet Jelly Roll Morton, Django Reinhardt, Walter Page, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker, and Duke Ellington, all on one stage for a night you'll never forget. Jonny Hannah has created a one-night special of red-hot rhymes and bold poster-style art that captures the rhythms and feel of jazz for newcomers and fans alike. Musicians' biographies at the end offer suggested listening for savoring the true flavor of each cat's style.

Kansas City Lightning

Author : Stanley Crouch
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062314068
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Kansas City Lightning written by Stanley Crouch and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post A stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, 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 with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four. Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Stanley Crouch recreates Parker’s Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.

Charlie Parker

Author : Carl Woideck
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472127225
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Parker written by Carl Woideck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of any era. As one of the architects of modern jazz (often called "bebop"), Charlie Parker has had a profound effect on American music. His music reached such a high level of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic sophistication that saxophonists and other instrumentalists continue to study it as both a technical challenge and an aesthetic inspiration. This revised edition of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life has been revised throughout to account for new Charlie Parker scholarship and previously unknown Parker recordings that have emerged since the book’s initial publication. The volume opens by considering current research on Parker’s biography, laying out some of the contradictory accounts of his life, and setting the chronology straight where possible. It then focuses on Parker’s music, tracing his artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser. The musical discussions and transcribed musical examples include timecodes for easy location in recordings—a unique feature to this book.