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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Friedwald, Will, 1961-     Subjects     Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965.     Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Singers -- United States -- Biography.     Pianists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Pianists -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Friedwald, Will, 1961-       by title:      Straighten up and fl...       by call number:      781.63092 C6892s     Search the Web     Friedwald, Will, 1961-     Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965.     Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Singers -- United States -- Biography.     Pianists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Pianists -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Straighten up and fly right : the life and music of Nat King Cole / Will Friedwald. by Friedwald, Will, 1961- Oxford University Press, 2020. Call #: 781.63092 C6892s Subjects Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965.   Singers, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Singers -- United States -- Biography.   Pianists, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Pianists -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography. Series Oxford cultural biographies. ISBN:  9780190882044 (hc) Description:  xv, 633 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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 phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping his trio going was just as much of a focus for him as his own playing and singing, always a collective or group performance. In the second act, Cole's collaborators were more likely to be arranger-conductors like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, rather than his sidemen on bass and guitar. In the first act, his sidemen were equals, in the second phase, his collaborators were tasked exclusively with putting the focus on him, making him sound good, while being largely invisible themselves. Friedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the man in the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) vs. wife number two (Maria), the good songs vs. the less-than-good songs, the rhythm numbers vs. the ballads, the funny songs and novelties vs. the "serious" songs of love and loss, Cole as an advocate for the Great American Songbook vs. Cole the intrepid explorer of other options: world music, rhythm & blues, country & western. Cole was different from his contemporaries in other ways; for roughly ten years after the war, the majority of hitmakers on the pop charts were veterans of the big band experience, from Sinatra on down"--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.63092 C6892s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.63092 C6892s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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