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1) The great jazz and pop vocal albums

Author

Friedwald, Will

Publisher

Pantheon

Pub. Date

[2017].

Language

English

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The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah...

2) Straighten up and fly right: the life and music of Nat King Cole

Author

Friedwald, Will

Series

Oxford cultural biographies

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

Language

English

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"One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating musician, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star. In Cole's early phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping...

3) Nights at the red Steinway: adventures in jazz piano, from The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere

Author

Friedwald, Will

Publisher

Backbeat

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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"Whether in the compositions of foundational figures like Jelly Roll Morton, Thoman 'Fats' Waller, and Earl 'Fatha" Hines; swing pioneers such as Teddy Wilson and Joe Bushkin; torch-bearers like Mary Lou Williams and her student Thelonious Monk; technical masters including Bud Powell and Bill Evans; or modern mixologists such as Sun Ra and Keith Jarrett, the piano has been the site of historic innovations in jazz, and the vehicle with which some of...