{"product_id":"bird-lives-the-high-life-and-hard-times-of-charlie-yardbird-parker","title":"Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (yardbird) Parker","description":"\"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society.\"--Ralph Gleason\n\n\"Inspired by great affection and dedication, Bird Lives! provides a vivid and accurate picture not only of the saxophonist-composer as artist and human being but of his zeitgeist and the musical\/social setting that produced him. Parker was an immensely complex personality; saint and satyr, loving father and footloose vagabond, with a limitless appetite for sex, music, food, pills, heroin, liquor, life. A man of vast influence, the most admired and imitated creator of the mid-1940s bop revolution, he was forced to work in dives, reduced to bumming dollars when he should have been respected as a reigning virtuoso. . . . A sensitive, penetrating portrait.\"--Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times\n\n\"One of the very few jazz books that deserve to be called literature . . . perhaps the finest writing on jazz to be found anywhere. . . . Those aware of Parker's genius cannot do without this book.\"--Grover Sales, Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0306806797\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0306806797.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Russell, Ross\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46545876844741,"sku":"LFV.0306806797.VG","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0306806797-0.jpg?v=1784222615","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/bird-lives-the-high-life-and-hard-times-of-charlie-yardbird-parker","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}