A biographical dictionary of jazz and pop singers
By: Will Friedwald.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 811
ISBN-13: 9780375421495
Subjects: Jazz singers -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Jazz -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Singers -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Popular music -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Genres: Biography; Dictionaries; Bio-bibliography
Description: "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 body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung."--Jacket.