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Music Jazz

Cool Blues

Charlie Parker in Canada 1953

by (author) Mark Miller

Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Jazz
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889711198
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $21.95

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Where to buy it

Out of print

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Description

Featuring previously unpublished photographs of the great Charlie Parker, with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and others.

About the author

Mark Miller served as the jazz critic for The Globe and Mail from 1978 to 2005 and, in addition to A Certain Respect for Tradition, has completed six other books since 1982, including Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949 (1997), The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001), and Some Hustling This!: Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 (2005) (all Mercury). He has also written for several popular and scholarly publications, notably Coda, Down Beat, the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. His photographs of jazz musicians have been published widely.

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