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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis just great charlie harkers reef but brilliant live comes to full focus in this important tome by cultural critic and jazz historian Stanley Crouch titled kansas city lightning, the life and times of Charlie Parker. Stanley crouch joins us now from new york. First, a look at the great Charlie Parker in concert, from 1951. They say music speaks louder than words. Tavis stanley, im glad to have you on. That missed our by asking why, given his huge impact, that so little has been written about Charlie Parker . A lot of what has been written is basically what they call urban legends these days. Which means exaggerations and fraud. Tavis why exaggeration and fraud about Charlie Parker . See, he provides for the average reader a lot of andhes about black people jazz musicians, about drugs, and people tend to gravitate towards those things. Book, itarted the actually realized through my mother and father, both of

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