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The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

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Author: Crouch, Stanley
ISBN:978-0-06-200559-5
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.99USD $27.99
Book Description:

No musician has lived a more transformational, or more tragic, life than Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential figures of the twentieth century. From the start of his career in the late 1930s, Parker was a new kind of American artist: a revolutionary musician who internalized all of popular music and blew it back through his alto saxophone "at the tempo of emergency"-even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would ultimately contribute to his death at...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Music
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.24 Inches
Book Weight:1.36 Pounds
Author Biography
Crouch, Stanley (Author)
Stanley Lawrence Crouch was an author, poet, music and cultural critic, essayist and columnist. He was born on December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from high school in 1963, he attended several junior colleges and became active in the civil rights movement. He became poet-in-residence at Pitzer College in in 1968. In 1975, he taught theater and literature at Pomona College.

He moved to New York City in 1975 and worked as a musician and conducted bookings for an avant-garde jazz series at clubs. In 1980, he was hired as a staff writer for the Village Voice. In 1988, he was fired after a fistfight with a fellow writer. He then worked as a syndicated columnist based at the New York Daily News.

His anthologies included Noted of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994; Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997; and Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz. His fiction included, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing. He wrote a biography, The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker.

In 2016, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize.

Stanley Crouch died on September 16, 2020 in New York City at the age of 74.

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