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Louis' children : American jazz singers
- Title
- Louis' children : American jazz singers / Leslie Gourse.
- Author
- Gourse, Leslie.
- Publication
- New York : Cooper Square Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3508 .G68 2001 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.
- Description
- 380 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- "First Cooper Square Press edition"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-375) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Prelude. Ch. 1. Cousin Joe of New Orleans. Ch. 2. Louis Armstrong: "Everyone's Pops" Ch. 3. The Eloquent Ethel Waters. Ch. 4. Bing ... and, of Course, Fred Astaire ... and Bobby McFerrin. Ch. 5. Cab -- Pt. II. Big-Band Era. Ch. 6. The Big-Band Singers: Introduction. Ch. 7. The Kansas City Singers: Little Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner and Pha Terrell. Ch. 8. "There Was No Middle Ground with Billie Holiday" Ch. 9. Tales of Big-Band-Era Singers -- Pt. III. Singers on Their Own. Ch. 10. Singers' Camaraderie: Thelma Carpenter, Etta Jones and Helen Merrill. Ch. 11. Beyond the Vibrato: The Cutting Edge of Billy Eckstine, Heartthrob. Ch. 12. The Instrumentalists Sing: A Jazz Subculture. Ch. 13. Feeding the Maw with Tunes: From Leo Watson to Eddie Jefferson to Lorraine Feather. Ch. 14. A Coat of Many Colors for Jon Hendricks: Lyricist Laureate of Jazz. Ch. 15. "You Are My Goddam Sunshine": Mel Torme. Ch. 16. Nat "King" Cole.
- Ch. 17. "Ice Was a Three-Note Thing": Joe Williams. Ch. 18. Dinah Washington's Love Stories. Ch. 19. Lady O'Day: The Case of the Missing Uvula. Ch. 20. Mabel Mercer, Boite Star. Ch. 21. A Great Critic Says a Few Words About the Legendary Frank Sinatra. Ch. 22. The Glorious Voice of Sarah Vaughan. Ch. 23. The Time of Ella Fitzgerald. Ch. 24. Noodling with Norman Simmons About Carmen McRae. Ch. 25. The Feeling of Carmen McRae. Ch. 26. "We Should Have Gone More Places": Annie Ross. Ch. 27. Tony Bennett: "A Rhythmic Rapport" Ch. 28. Rosemary Clooney: Interpretations from the Labyrinth. Ch. 29. One of Billie's Children: Sylvia Syms. Ch. 30. The Lure of Birdland and Environs, Leading to a Night in El Paso. Ch. 31. Jazz-Boite Singing -- Pt. IV. The B-Natural Generation: "They Reflect the Times They Live In" Ch. 32. Betty Carter: Guru of "Out" Ch. 33. Andy Bey's Subtely; Joe Lee Wilson's Reverberations. Ch. 34. Janet Lawson's Scat Songs.
- Ch. 35. The Beat of Tania Maria: "A Piano Is Not Like a Man" Ch. 36. The View from January 1, 2001. Singers of the 1980s and 1990s.
- ISBN
- 0815411146 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00047558
- OCLC
- ocm45172304
- SCSB-4125794
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries