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    Charles Mingus: A Critical Biography

    Brian Priestley

    It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power…

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    Chasin’ the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker

    Brian Priestley

    Charlie Parker was one of the influential musicians in jazz, and was the main architect of the jazz revolution of the 1940s. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, and with a…

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    Chasin’ The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker

    Brian Priestley

    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…

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    Annual Review of Jazz Studies 10: 1999

    This annual review is dedicated to research on jazz and its related musical forms. It contains numerous musical examples, a book review section, a portfolio of jazz photographs, and bibliographic…

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