Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker

Contents

• * At Billy Bergs: An Obbligato
• Part I * Heavenly City * Getting Straight * Kansas City Mystique * Trials of Manhood * Modes * The Making of a Jazzman
• Part II * Woodshedding in the Ozarks * The Apple * Hootie * The Band That Played the Blues * The Bebop Laboratory * The Last of the Big Bands * The Street * A Dizzy Atmosphere
• Part III * The Independent Record Derby * Yardbird in Lotus Land * Sparrows Last Jump * Relaxin at Camarillo * Klactoveesedstene * Bird at Work * Birdland
• Part IV * Travels with a Genius * A Queer Night in Brussels * The Jazz Baroness * King Pleasure * Down and Out in New York * At the Hotel Stanhope * Coda: Six Pretty Horses Pullin Me