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My Life in E-flat
Chan Parker
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Description for My Life in E-flat
Paperback. This autobiography presents insights into the history of jazz and the author's life with her husband, Charlie Parker, one of the movement's important soloists. The author tells the story of her early life as the daughter of a producer of vaudeville shows and a Ziegfield Midnight Follies dancer. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
My Life in E-flat is the memoir of a woman who witnessed some of the most important movements in the history of jazz. Through her autobiography, Chan Parker provides intimate insights into the music and into life with Charlie Parker, the key figure in the development of bebop and one of the most important of all jazz musicians. Chan Parker was born Beverly Dolores Berg in New York City at the height of the Jazz Age. Her father was a producer of vaudeville shows and her mother was a dancer in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. Parker became part of the ... Read more
My Life in E-flat is the memoir of a woman who witnessed some of the most important movements in the history of jazz. Through her autobiography, Chan Parker provides intimate insights into the music and into life with Charlie Parker, the key figure in the development of bebop and one of the most important of all jazz musicians. Chan Parker was born Beverly Dolores Berg in New York City at the height of the Jazz Age. Her father was a producer of vaudeville shows and her mother was a dancer in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. Parker became part of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
371 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570032455
SKU
V9781570032455
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for My Life in E-flat
Chan Parker's brilliant autobiography gives us an honest and well-written insight into her dramatic life on the American jazz scene in the 1940s and 50s
from the heydays on 52nd Street in New York, to her love affairs with and marriages to Charlie Parker and Phil Woods, to her present life of reflection and solitude in France. Highly recommended reading!
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from the heydays on 52nd Street in New York, to her love affairs with and marriages to Charlie Parker and Phil Woods, to her present life of reflection and solitude in France. Highly recommended reading!
Jan ... Read more