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Series
Criterion collection volume 327
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on the director's childhood, this film portrays a precocious fifteen-year-old boy as he journeys from childhood to adulthood, his story of sexual maturation, and the unorthodox relationship he has with his free-spirited mother.
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Bird
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
Author
Publisher
Z2 Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The graphic novel tells the story of Bird's time in L.A. starting in December 1945, where Bird and Dizzy Gillespie brought frenetic sounds of bebop from the East Coast jazz underground to the West Coast for a two-month residency at Billy Berg's Hollywood jazz club. This marked the beginning of a tumultuous two year-stint for Bird bumming around L.A., showing up at jam sessions, crashing on people's couches, causing havoc in public places, and recording...
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