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Title: Blues for Bird by James Martin Gray, Martin Gray ISBN: 1-891661-20-5 Publisher: Santa Monica Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A poet's ear!
Comment: Great book! This book, Blues for Bird, is worth all the other biographies of Charlie Parker combined. A concise and direct evocation of the jazzman's life, it tells the tragic story of his rise and fall, and the tragic decline of his later years--it censors nothing, it tells the story better than a more detailed biographical volume, And does it with a poet's ear and eye! Alright! Be-bop!

Rating: 5
Summary: Accessible poetry
Comment: Somebody ought to make a bunch of CDs, with an actor reading these highly accessible poems against a backdrop of Charlie Parker's music. They'd be a wow!

Rating: 5
Summary: Epic/anti-epic
Comment: How can you write an epic today when the world is no longer 'story-shaped'? You can go back and translate 'Beowulf', as Seamus Heaney has done, or you can be like Martin Gray and write an epic life in quantum bursts of three-stress energy.