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Picture Book Musician Bios Summer Challenge 2018 Music
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
Sing Me A Story
Rocking and Rolling Picture Book Biographies
Sing Me A Story
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Introduces the musical style of jazz known as be bop as played by legendary African-American saxophonist Charlie Parker.
10) Bird & Diz
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Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
11) Charlie Parker
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Profiles the life and career of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
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The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. 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 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of a social critic, and the narrative...