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  • Sinatra! The Song Is You

    A Singer's Art

    by Will Friedwald ...
    Frank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his collaborators as well as with "The Voice" himself, this book chronicles, critiques, and celebrates his five-decade career. Will Friedwald examines and evaluates all the classic and less familiar songs ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

    by Will Friedwald ...
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

    by Will Friedwald ...
    Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $17.99 USD

  • Stardust Melodies

    The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs

    by Will Friedwald ...
    In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content. Drawing on his vast knowledge of records and the careers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Straighten Up and Fly Right

    The Life and Music of Nat King Cole

    by Will Friedwald ...
    Series series Cultural Biographies
    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 ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Nights at the Red Steinway

    Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere

    by Will Friedwald ...
    Through curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls "a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American musical form.”Whether in the compositions of foundational figures like Jelly Roll Morton, Thomas “Fats” Waller. and Earl “Fatha” Hines; swing pioneers such as Teddy Wilson and Joe Bushkin; torch-bearers ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • New Atlantis

    Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    by John Swenson ...
    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Black Music

    by LeRoi Jones ...
    Series series Akashi Classics: Renegade Reprint Series
    The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author.In the 1960s, LeRoi Jones—who would later be known as Amiri Baraka—was a pioneering jazz critic, articulating in real time the incredible transformations of the form taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City. In Black Music, he sheds light on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

    Volumes 1 and 2

    by Steve Sullivan ...
    From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, ... Read more

    $207.99 USD

  • Claude Ranger

    Canadian Jazz Legend

    by Mark Miller ...
    Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.   Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked into the left corner of his mouth, Ranger cut a compelling figure alongside ... Read more

    $5.15 USD

  • Love Songs

    The Hidden History

    by Ted Gioia ...
    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how have our changing perceptions about topics such as sexuality and gender roles changed our attitudes towards these songs? In ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • King of Ragtime

    Scott Joplin and His Era

    by Edward A. Berlin ...
    When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story. This new and expanded edition-more than a third larger than the first-goes far beyond the original publication in uncovering new details of the composer's life and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD