Giant Steps
Subtitle: The Story of Bebop (Scene)
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Published: June 13, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780862418595
Subjects: Blues; Jazz; Music/Songbooks; Music; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Music / Jazz
First sentence: Unlike Charlie Parker, who burned with incandescent brilliance and died young, Dizzy Gillespie carved out a lengthy career and became a respected elder statesman of the music, which is an unhip thing to do in jazz mythology.