2013 selection · Nonfiction

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker

Name: Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
Author: Stanley Crouch
ISBN: 9780062005595

by Stanley Crouch

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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