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Bird lives; the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker.

Book/Text

New York, Charterhouse [1973]

1973

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 73-22Item locationOffsite
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Bird lives; the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker.

Book/Text

New York, Charterhouse [1973]

1973

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Parker, C. (Russell, R. Bird lives)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Discography of Charlie Parker. Biographical notes by Knud H. Ditlevsen [2d ed.]

Microform

[Copenhagen] Debut Records [1960] c1959.

1960

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro F-1475Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatMicroformCall number*L 72-856Item locationOffsite

Bird & Diz : a bibliography / edited by Dan Morgenstern, Ira Gitler, and Jack Bradley.

Microform

[New York] : New York Jazz Museum, c1973.

1973

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Charlie Parker: techniques of improvisation.

Microform

Los Angeles, 1974.

1974

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-3223Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bird : the legend of Charlie Parker / by Robert George Reisner.

Book/Text

New York : Bonanza Books, c1962.

1962

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 81-20Item locationOffsite

"To Bird with love" / Chan Parker, technical direction and English text ; Francis Paudras, conception, artistic direction, and French text.

Book/Text

Poitiers, France : WIZLOV, c1981.

1981

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ G 82-12Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNG 83-180Item locationOffsite

Confirmation / Allan D. Coleman.

Book/Text

[Staten Island N.Y.] : ADCO Enterprises, 1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B 85-2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Charlie Parker / Brian Priestley ; selected discography by Brian Priestley.

Book/Text

Tunbridge Wells : Spellmount ; New York : Hippocrene Books, 1984.

1984

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 85-53Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNC 87-5Item locationOffsite

Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / by Gary Giddins.

Book/Text

New York : W. Morrow, c1986.

1986

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 87-6Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 86-31Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / Gary Giddins.

Book/Text

New York : Beech Tree Books, c1987.

1987

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNG 88-77Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten / Peter Niklas Wilson, Ulfert Goeman.

Book/Text

Schaftlach : OREOS, 1988.

1988

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*L 90-1373Item locationOffsite

Cool blues : Charlie Parker in Canada, 1953 / Mark Miller.

Book/Text

London, Ont. : Nightwood Editions, c1989.

1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 90-27Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1940?-1959?>

1940-1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Parker, CharlieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
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To Bird with love [sound recording] / Eddie Daniels.

Musical recording

New York, N.Y. : GRP Records, p1987.

1987

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusical recordingCall number*LZR 950Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Ode to a highflying bird.

Book/Text

London : Beat Publications, [19--]

1900-1992

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNC 92-14Item locationOffsite

The twelfth anniversary Playboy reader. Edited by Hugh M. Hefner.

Book/Text

Chicago, Playboy Press; distributed by Trident Press [c1965]

1965

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 810.8-P (Playboy. Twelfth anniversary Playboy reader)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberE-12 8251Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Charlie Parker.

Book/Text

London, Cassell [c1960]

1960

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number**MEC (Parker) (Harrison, M. Charlie Parker)Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker.

Book/Text

New York, Barnes [1961, c1960]

1961

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Parker, C. (Harrison, M. Charlie Parker. 1961)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*L 72-652Item locationOffsite

Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker.

Book/Text

New York, Citadel Press [c1962]

1962

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Parker, C. (Reisner, R. Bird)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Charlie Parker 10th memorial concert [sound recording].

Musical recording

Linden, N.J. : Trip, [196-?]

1960-1969

1 item

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FormatMusical recordingCall numberSc Audio RE-7065Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Larry Neal papers, 1961-1985.

Archival Mix

1961-1985

45 items

Collection information

Finding aid

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 344 Box 45Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 344 Box 44Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 344 Box 43Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Charlie Parker, musician / Ron Frankl.

Book/Text

New York : Chelsea House, c1993.

1992

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 03-427Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 94-33Item locationOffsite

The Charlie Parker discography / by Robert Bregman, Leonard Bukowski, and Norman Saks.

Book/Text

Redwood, N.Y. : Cadence Jazz Books, c1993.

1993

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*L 94-620Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker : kritische Beiträge zur Bibliographie sowie zu Leben und Werk / Thomas Hirschmann.

Book/Text

Tutzing [Germany] : H. Schneider, c1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 95-40Item locationOffsite

Bird's diary : the life of Charlie Parker, 1945-1955 / written by Ken Vail.

Book/Text

Chessington, Surrey : Castle Communications, c1996.

1996

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 99-964Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 96-184Item locationOffsite

The bebop revolution in words and music / edited by Dave Oliphant ; with an introduction by Richard Lawn.

Book/Text

[Austin, Tex.] : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, c1994.

1994-

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 96-221Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker and thematic improvisation / by Henry Martin.

Book/Text

[Newark, N.J.] : Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey ; Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, c1996.

1996

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-415Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 96-107Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker : his music and life / Carl Woideck.

Book/Text

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.

1996

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 97-84Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 96-171Item locationOffsite

Oral history interview with Yusef Lateef / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Larry Ridley.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.

1996-927

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Oral history interview with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, 5 August 1993.

DVD

1993.

1993

4 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-196b Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-196aItem locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1077 pt. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Oral history interview with Art Taylor.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1994.

1994-726

2 items

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FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1068 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1068 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Oral history interview with Jimmy Heath / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Larry Ridley.

DVD

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.

1996-717

2 items

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1072 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-1072 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Yardbird suite : side one, 1920-1940 / by Bill Harris.

Book/Text

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c1997.

1997

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 02-440Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 98-656Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 98-3888Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Parker's mood / Alain Tercinet.

Book/Text

Marseille : Parenthèses, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 98-318Item locationOffsite

The Charlie Parker companion : six decades of commentary / edited by Carl Woideck.

Book/Text

New York : Schirmer Books, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 98-583Item locationOffsite

The Dial recordings of Charlie Parker : a discography / compiled by Edward M. Komara.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1998.

1998

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 98-1498Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*L 98-1072Item locationOffsite

My life in E-flat / Chan Parker.

Book/Text

Columbia, S. C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1998?]

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-341Item locationOffsite

Yardbird suite : a compendium of the music and life of Charlie Parker / Lawrence O. Koch.

Book/Text

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1999.

1999

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 99-412Item locationOffsite

Portrait of Charlie Parker : für Flöte und Klavier (Cembalo) = for flute and piano (harpsichord) / Daniel Schnyder.

Notated music

Adliswil/ZH : Edition Kunzelmann, c1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJMF 99-786Item locationOffsite

Chasing the Bird : functional harmony in Charlie Parker's bebop themes / Juha Henriksson.

Book/Text

Helsinki : Suomen Musiikkitieteellinen Seura, 1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 99-566Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker; ein Porträt.

Book/Text

Wetzlar, Pegasus Verlag [1959]

1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MEC (Parker) (Schmidt, S. Charlie Parker)Item locationOffsite

Charlie Parker : Ray Brown, Benny Carter, J.C. Heard, Johnny Hodges, Barney Kessel, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phillips, Charlie Shavers, Ben Wester : Norman Granz jam sessions / Esther Bubley ; texte de Hank O'Neal ; traduit de l'américain par Isabelle Leymarie ; préface de Norman Granz.

Book/Text

Levallois-Perret : Filipacchi, c1995.

1995

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMFX+ (Bubley) 00-9754Item locationOffsite
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNG 17-161Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Bill Spilka collection of jazz videorecordings [videorecording].

VHS

1988-2002

0 resources

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"Sweet love, bitter" film collection, 1962-1972 bulk 1967.

Archival Mix

1962-1972

3 items

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc Mg 710 Folder 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc Mg 710 Folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatArchival MixCall numberSc Mg 710 Folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Yardbird suite : a compendium of the music and life of Charlie Parker / Lawrence O. Koch.

Book/Text

Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1988.

1988

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 89-48Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 89-59Item locationOffsite

Bird's legacy [sound recording].

Music CD

New York, NY : Jazz at Lincoln Center : Murray Street Enterprise, p1999.

1999

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusic CDCall number*LDCO 299 [Script]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatMusic CDCall number*LDCO 299 [CD]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Chasin' the bird : the life and legacy of Charlie Parker / Brian Priestley.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

2006

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 06-184Item locationOffsite