Cadence Jazz Books, 1993.
Much new light is cast on the subject.
Consideration of Parker in secondary literature looks at publications in both jazz journals and academic publications, discographies, bibliographies and transcriptions of Parker's music. The chapter on Parker's biography collects people's comments relating to all periods of his life. An appendix provides a chronological listing of Parker's surviving first recordings and later versions of his compositions. Hirschmann's book is extremely well conceived and executed. Rarely is such a specifically bibliographical work at the same time so eminently readable.