Chasin The Bird

Author : Dave Chisholm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940878381
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasin' The Bird written by Dave Chisholm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0195327098
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( 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.

Author : Dave Chisholm
Publisher : Z2 Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781940878898
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enter the Blue written by Dave Chisholm and published by Z2 Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 164336278X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life in E-flat written by Chan Parker and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paolo Parisi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448182034
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coltrane written by Paolo Parisi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Eunmi Shim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113460
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lennie Tristano written by Eunmi Shim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history

Author : Erin Loechner
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0310345685
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Slow written by Erin Loechner and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Fleming
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475919441
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry written by David Fleming and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BIRD: THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE PARKER. written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Frizzell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692886687
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riley Bird written by Chris Frizzell and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all afraid of something. Riley Bird is afraid of almost everything! Take a journey with a young bird that must face his fears of leaving the nest and learning to fly. When Riley's anxiety walks him off the edge of his nest, will he fall flat or flap his young wings and soar?