Research Catalog

Title

Jazz singing : America's great voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and beyond / Will Friedwald.

Author

Friedwald, Will, 1961-

Publication

New York : C. Scribner's Sons, c1990.

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Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xvi, 477 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

The story of how jazz and blues gave birth to popular singing, examining the style of creative singers and why their music was influential.

Subject

• Jazz > History and criticism
• Singers > United States
• Jazz vocals > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Discography: p. [433]-460.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface. Definitions -- Forebears : the birth and the blues -- Mr. Satch and Mr. Cros : Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby -- The first generation : the late twenties and early thirties -- Cult of the white goddess : Mildred Bailey, Connee Boswell, and Lee Wiley -- Sing me a swing song! : canaries of the Hellenic era -- Lady Day and Lady Time : Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald -- Brothers and sisters : the early hot vocal groups -- The conquest of the crooners : pop singing in the postwar era -- Modernism 1 : sing a song of bebop -- Modernism 2 : ballads, baritones, and B. -- Modernism 3 : Torme, O'Day, and the vo-cool school -- Sinatra! : and other swingin' lovers -- Singing horns : Jack Teagarden to Chet Baker -- Revolt of the Philistines : problems and answers in the sixties -- Present tense : the past predicted, the future re-created.

ISBN

0684185229 :

LCCN

^^^89028172^

OCLC

• 20489272
• SCSB-9939438

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library