Bird lives
Subtitle: the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
By: Ross Russell
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Series: African American music reference
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Jazz musicians; Biography
Notes: Originally published: New York : Charterhouse, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-383), discography (p. 284-388), and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: Part II; title: Part III; title: Part IV; title: 'Transcription of a Bird solo'; title: 'Bird at 14 months'; title: 'Bird on a pony, before the move from the suburbs'; title: 'Charlie strung out on a 'burn', 1945'; title: 'Charlie in sunglasses performing with the Earl Fatha' Hines Orchestra, 1943'; title: 'Dizzy Gillespie'; title: 'Photo of Charlie used for publicity'; title: 'Doris and Charlie, Birdland, 1950'; title: 'Charlie and Chan Richardson, Birdland, 1950'; title: 'Charlie after his stay at Camarillo State Hospital, Hollywood, 1947'; title: 'Charlie with his quintet, 1947'; title: 'Charlie performing with strings, Birdland, 1950'; title: 'Picture of Charlie's talented hands'; title: 'Charlie in Sweden, 1950'; title: 'Charlie jamming with Swedish musicians, 1950'; title: 'Jam session with Mingus, Monk, and Haynes, Greenwich Village, ca. 1953'; title: 'Bird'; title: 'Lester Young'; title: 'Charlie and Red Rodney, Kansas City, 1951'; title: 'Billy Eckstine and Bird'; title: 'Jay McShann in Kansas City'; title: 'Erroll Garner, The Haig Club, Hollywood, 1947'; title: 'Howard McGhee and his trumpet'; title: 'Max Roach, Chicago, ca. 1948'; title: 'Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Berg's, December 1945'; title: 'Candid shot of Charlie, ca. 1947'; title: 'Charlie eating at a Hollywood garden party, 1951'; title: 'A 'very played out Bird', Hollywood, 1952'; title: 'Charlie in his coffin, Harlem, 1955'; title: 'Hand-written contract between Charlie and Dial Records, February 26, 1946'; title: 'Another hand-written contract with Dial Records, April 3, 1946'; title: 'Another transcription of a Bird solo'.