Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker

by Gary Giddins

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688059503
• ISBN13: 9780688059507
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Beech Tree Paperback Book
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I Really LIke This This Book

I had a wonderful time reading this book. It's more of a *long* essay than it is a book. The writing is excellent, and there are lots of wonderful photographs interspersed within. I don't know if it really matters, but for what it's worth I read part of this book while sitting at a table at Birdland on 46th Street in NYC waiting for my favorite up and coming piano player, David Epstein, to return from break to play another set. I have three books by Gary Giddins and like him so much I'm going to buy more of his books. By coinicidence I saw a video recently on the life of Charlie Parker, and it used many of the same photographs that were used in this book. I am not aware of a tie in between the two products however. In conclusion, this book was enjoyable and I learned a great deal about Charlie Parker from the point of view of his personality and his character and what his life was like.