Arranged in Sections with Questions for Use at Family Altars and in Adult Bible Classes. Containing Homiletic and Expository Suggestions for Young Preachers. Also an Index of Texts and Themes Receiving Special Treatment.
Arranged in Sections with Questions for Use at Family Altars and in Adult Bible Classes. Containing Homiletic and Expository Suggestions for Young Preachers. Also an Index of Texts and Themes Receiving Special Treatment.
“Whoever attempts it will find it far easier to write a long commentary than a brief one,” said a famous commentator. This we believe. The Christian Workers’ Commentary represents the labor of eight years in the use of such spare hours as could be found in an otherwise well-filled life, but had the plan permitted its expansion into a series of volumes instead of one, it might have been completed earlier.
Martin Gray's epic biographical poem chronicles the life of one of the twentieth century's most pivotal musical figures, from his humble beginnings in Kansas City through his pioneering of the breakthrough musical form of bebop to his early tragic death in the Park Avenue apartment of a European countess. Writing in iambic trimeters and syncopated hexameters, Gray dances nimbly along in a way that echoes Bird's blazing, fast-fingered solos. Gray's use of the poetic form reflects the rhythms of jazz and the beat hat lies at the heart of bebop. Blues for Bird is like a piece of jazz itself: exciting, innovative, and constantly surprising. This book not only functions as a primer on Bird, but as an introduction to the musical nature of jazz.
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