Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker

Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication

bird Music in American Life Alistofbooksintheseries appearsattheendofthisbook. The Life and Music of Charlie Parker bird Chuck Haddix University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield © 2013 by Charles Haddix All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Frontispiece: Charlie at Billy Berg’s, 1946. (Used by permission of the University of Missouri–Kansas City Libraries, Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections.) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haddix, Chuck. Bird : the life and music of Charlie Parker / Chuck Haddix. Pages cm. — (Music in American life) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-252-03791-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-252-09517-7 (e-book) 1. Parker, Charlie, 1920–1955. 2. Jazz musicians—United States—Biography. I. Title. ML419.P4H34  2013 788.7'3165092—dc23  2013003509 [B] ForBillTuttle,ascholar,bonvivant, andalwaysaninspiration. “Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring, Your Winter garment of Repentance fling; The Bird of time has but a little way To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing.” —Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ...