Birditis
Ian Penman: The Obsession with Charlie Parker, 23 January 2014
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
by Gary Giddins.
Minnesota, revised edition, 195 pp., £15, October 2013,978 0 8166 9041 1 Show More
by Gary Giddins.
Minnesota, revised edition, 195 pp., £15, October 2013,
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
by Stanley Crouch.
Harper, 365 pp., £20, September 2013,978 0 06 200559 5 Show More
by Stanley Crouch.
Harper, 365 pp., £20, September 2013,
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker
by Chuck Haddix.
Illinois, 188 pp., £20, September 2013,978 0 252 03791 7 Show More
by Chuck Haddix.
Illinois, 188 pp., £20, September 2013,
“... A few weak shots of morphine administered after a car crash are nominated the fatal glass of beer; Chuck Haddix, in Bird, then has a visiting GP suddenly burst into dark warnings about the hell-broth of addiction. This seems a tad unlikely. (According to Haddix, the doc warns that as an addict Charlie will have – at ... ”
