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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker Paperback - 2014

by Crouch, Stanley

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  • Title Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
  • Author Crouch, Stanley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, U.S.A.
  • Date 2014-10-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR012848090
  • ISBN 9780062005618 / 0062005618
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.29 x 0.95 in (20.37 x 13.44 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Heartland
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Kansas
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

Winner of the Prose Award for Humanities
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award
Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

No musician has lived a more transformational, or tragic, life than Charlie Parker, one of the most talented and influential figures of the twentieth century. Drawing on decades of original interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Stanley Crouch reveals Parker as he was: from the dance clubs of late-night Kansas City, where he learned his craft, to the ballrooms of wartime Harlem, it offers an unprecedented window into the world--and intimate life--of the young genius.

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  • New York Times Book Review, 12/07/2014, Page 82