Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the ...
Read More
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four. Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Kansas City Lightning recreates Parker's Depression-era childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before.
Read Less
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $2.54, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Harper Perennial.
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $2.54, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Harper Perennial.
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $4.98, good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Skokie, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by HarperPerennial.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. There are stains or residue on the cover. This is a paperback copy. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $6.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter II rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sierra Vista, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Harper.
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $6.47, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Harper.
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $6.47, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Harper.
Add this copy of Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie to cart. $6.47, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Harper.