Will Friedwald
Da Capo Press, 1996
Paperback. 522pp. b&w illustrations
£15.50

America's great voices from Bessie Smith to bebop and beyond. This edition includes a newly revised and updated discography.

"…It confirmed for me who the giants really are. Speaking personally, it helped me to view my career from a whole new perspective. I had to call everybody I knew and tell them to get it." - TONY BENNETT

"This magisterial, lively, catholic, enthusiastic overview of jazz and jazz-influenced pop singers couldn't be more welcome. Nor could it be more fascinating, as Friedwald discusses the major figures - Armstrong, Crosby, Holiday, Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Eckstine, Vaughan, Torme, Bennett, etc., - in depth, but tantalizingly describes the contributions of secondary and forgotten talents…This is an absolutely essential book for anyone who cares in the slightest about adult popular music." - BOOKLIST

WILL FRIEDWALD is also the author of The Warner Bros. Cartoons, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and Sinatra! The Song is You.

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