The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker.


Books with substantial mentioning of Bird

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1989, A Survey of the Films of 1988
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 64-67 info

Books with an entry on Bird

S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Historical dictionary of African American cinema
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Plymouth, UK, 2007

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Articles with substantial mentioning of Bird

David Sterritt, "Heroes Are Something We Create", The Biopics, in: Lester D. Friedman and David Desser (eds.), Tough ain't enough, New Brunswick, 2018