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Chan Parker - My Life in E-flat - 9781570032455 - V9781570032455
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My Life in E-flat

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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 jazz culture as a nightclub dancer and later as the wife of jazz saxophonists Charlie Parker and then Phil Woods. In a moving and candid portrait of Charlie Parker, the author describes in harrowing detail a man of incredible talent besieged with addictions and self-destructiveness. She painfully recounts his death at the age of 35 while married to her and its effect on her life as well as on the musical world. Parker's honest portrait of one of the most gifted musicians in jazz provides unique insight into the history of the music and the difficulties faced by African American performers during the 1940s. Parker also reflects on her struggle to find her own voice and on her work with Clint Eastwood on the film biography of Charlie Parker, Bird (1988).

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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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!
Jan Horne, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

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