Music: Sax, Drugs And Jazz: Charlie Parker's 'Lightning'-Fast Rise

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Sax, Drugs And Jazz: Charlie Parker's 'Lightning'-Fast Rise Sep 27th 2013, 11:00 Stanley Crouch, one of the nation's most prominent jazz critics, has just released Kansas City Lightning -- part one of a biography of Charlie "Bird" Parker. It's a book jazz fans have been anticipating for decades. Reviewer Craig Morgan Teicher says the story starts a little slowly, but when Parker picks up the saxophone, Crouch's writing cooks. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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