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The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
Harper
October 2013
On Sale: September 24, 2013
382 pages
ISBN: 0062005596
EAN: 9780062005595
Kindle: B00DG292OO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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