A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical material arranged chronologically and linked with Parker's recordings. The "Bird Stories" are all here, from Parker's Kansas City roots to his untimely death, as well as the seminal journal article on Parker's music, "Ornithology" that appeared in the Journal of Jazz Studies.
- ISBN13 9780879722593
- Publish Date 31 January 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
- Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 346
- Language English