Chasin' the Bird - The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker - Brian Priestley
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Chasin' the Bird - The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker - Brian Priestley
Brian Priestley [+]
Author, Journalist and Broadcaster
Brian Priestley is the co-author of The Rough Guide to Jazz, now in its fourth edition, and the biographer of Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. He is a jazz pianist of note, specialising in the Ellingtonian repertoire, and has several CDs to his name. He is also a critic and reviewer for numerous magazines including Jazzwise, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.
Description
An assessment of the Parker style virtually ignoring its later inuence but not its antecedents. The aim is to evaluate it in terms of such major areas of expression as tone qualities, rhythmic values, harmonic language, melodic sensibility and compositional considerations, and to do so through the tangible evidence of a limited number of examples drawn from the many studio and live recordings that have been made publicly available (so far).