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Can I read Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Music in American Life) on EtoBox?
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Music in American Life) by Chuck Haddix is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Music in American Life) about?
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 influen
Who reads Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker (Music in American Life)?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Chuck Haddix
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252095177
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Music
- Rating
- 3.41 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13