DEATH OF A BEBOP WIFE is a VIRTUAL BEBOP HANDBOOK! Dr. Herb Wong

Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan on March 6, 2008 at 3:24am

I would like to add Death of a Bebop Wife by Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan which is the biography of AL HAIG the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and DIzzy Gillespie and later Stan Getz.

Cadence Jazz Books published on April 9, 2007 and the official launch was at The Hard Rock Hotel at AJ's on April 16th.

"The Lady Knows!" Dan Morgenstern - Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers

"I thought I knew all about Al Haig, and this page-turner tells it all. To me, Al Haig was one of the bes ton jaz piano, and if Diz and Bird say so, who am I to disagree?"

Phil Urso - veteran jazz artist

Grange Rutan's writing reveals a brilliant and relentlessly thorough action researched and historian.

Her sense of historical and personal sense of place and time plus seductive emotionality leads the reader to uncover fascinating seques of jazz life episodes.

"Death of a Bebop Wife" is a virtual bebop bible - a singular source book which should be

essential reading in every jazz studies curriculum." - Dr. Herb Wong - Past-President of the

International Association for Jazz Education (Told before the 50th Anniversary of the

Monteray Jazz Festival.


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Reply by Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan on March 6, 2008 at 5:55am


CHARLIE PARKER LIVES IN MY BIOGRAPHY OF AL HAIG!

Check Death of a Bebop Wife by Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan out on www.amazon.com and go to books and then enter my tome's name; there you will not believe your eyes as it says it is out of print and there is one used copy for $398.00 and a new one!

DON'T BELIEVE IT - Reason being Cadence Jazz Books still has copies and so do I from a recent signing that I autographed and this 534 soft back is going for $28.00! Just thought I would have you laugh out loud at the absurdity of some dealer thinking someone from a foreign country will be foolish enough to spend on it...but there are nine reviews that you can read while you are laughing!


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