9780679438144

Kansas City Lightning: The Life and Times of Young Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch

ISBN 10: 0679438149 / 0-679-43814-9
ISBN 13: 9780679438144
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
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Synopsis:

A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame. 25,000 first printing.