www.doorway.ru: Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (Hardcover): Hardcover. Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of 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. · But in his down-home, cut-to-the-bone new book, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker—the first of two volumes—Stanley Crouch helps me see. He quotes an old-line observer of the King Oliver Band in Chicago, talking about musicians: “You wanted to be known by your name, not ‘that n∗∗∗∗ over there.’. Stanley Crouch talks to Chief Correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new biography on legendary Charlie Parker.
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by the late Stanley Crouch is a biography like no other I've read. Full disclosure here: I'm a Jazz aficionado; and I adore Bird. So it's fair to say that as I cracked the cover of this book it was with an open mind and a hopeful heart. Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker - Kindle edition by Crouch, Stanley. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker. Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of 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.
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch Harper Collins, © pp; $ hardcover; $ Kindle edition; ISBN: This review was originally published on www.doorway.ru on Ma, and is here reprinted, with permission, in observance of the centenary of Charlie Parker’s birth. Yet Stanley Crouch, jazz historian, novelist, critic, and one of the founders of Jazz at Lincoln Center, has managed to lift that mask in Kansas City Lightning, a chronicle of Parker's early life and the beginnings of his musical career. The book itself reads like a jazz record: Crouch zigs and zags around the mysterious years of Parker's childhood and adolescence with the seemingly erratic nature of a soloist, but don't be fooled: he keeps a straight narrative beneath the brass, the beat of. 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.
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