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Martin Gray's epic biographical poem chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most pivotal musical figures, from his humble beginnings in Kansas City through his pioneering of the breakthrough musical form of bebop to his early tragic death in the Park Avenue apartment of a European countess. Writing in iambic trimeters and syncopated hexameters, Gray dances nimbly along in a way that echoes Bird's blazing, fast-fingered solos. Gray's use of the poetic form reflects the rhythms of jazz and the beat hat lies at the heart of bebop. Blues for Bird is like a piece of jazz itself: exciting, innovative, and constantly surprising. This book not only functions as a primer on Bird, but as an introduction to the musical nature of jazz.
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About the Author
Martin Gray is one of the world's foremost scholars of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry and the editor of the Penguin Classic annotated edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Gray has published poems on Gilles Villeneuve, Amedeo Modigliani, and Jackson Pollock and has taught at several major universities across Canada. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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"A must for all Parker fans!" -- Howard Rumsey, the Lighthouse All Stars
"Brings out unsuspected mythic aspects of Parker, and the resonances set up in the poem are many and effective." -- Literary Review of Canada
"Focused, full of life, and incredibly well informed . . . Charlie Parker is so real that we can breathe him in." -- The Blindman's Rainbow
"Martin Gray's cadence is a perfect compliment to the poetry of jazz." -- Stan Levey, jazz drummer
"The nearly 300 page narrative should be dubbed the 'Bird Bible.'" -- allaboutjazz.com
"This is a collection that needs to be read, nay to be sung, by anyone claiming to love poetry." -- Iota Poetry Quarterly
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- PublisherEkstasis Editions
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0921215649
- ISBN 13 9780921215646
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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