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    612-822-4611

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Blues for Bird

Blues for Bird

Gray, Martin

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1891661205
ISBN13: 9781891661204
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: Oct 1 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.54 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker. Written entirely in trimeter, Gray's epic biographical poem runs some 5,400 lines. The work chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most pivotal musical figures, from his humble beginnings in Kansas City through his pioneering of the breakthrough musical form of bebop to his early tragic death in the Park Avenue apartment of a European Countess.

Gray's poetry dances nimbly along in a way that echoes Bird's blazing, fast-fingered solos, and his marvelous use of language reflects the rhythms of jazz and the beat that lies at the heart of bebop. Indeed, Blues for Bird is like a piece of jazz itself: exciting, innovative and constantly surprising.

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