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The great jazz and pop vocal albums / Will Friedwald.

by Friedwald, Will, 1961-

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Pantheon Books, 2017.

781.650266 F911g

Jazz vocals -- Discography.

Popular music -- Discography.

Singers -- Discography.

Sound recordings -- Reviews.

9780307379078 (hc)

xxv, 402 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes discography.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The origins and development of the pop music album from To Mother to The Voice -- Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong meets Oscar Peterson -- Fred Astaire, The Astaire story -- Chet Baker, Let's get lost : the best of Chet Baker sings -- Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans album and Together again -- Ray Charles, Modern sounds in country and western music -- June Christy, Something cool -- Rosemary Clooney, Blue rose -- Nat King Cole, After midnight -- Nat King Cole, St. Louis blues -- Bing Crosby, Bing with a beat -- Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, Bing & Satchmo -- Doris Day, Day by day and day by night -- Doris Day and Robert Goulet, Annie get your gun -- Blossom Dearie, My gentleman friend -- Matt Dennis, Matt Dennis plays and sings Matt Dennis ; Bobby Troup, Bobby Troup sings Johnny Mercer -- Billy Eckstine, Billy's best! -- Ella Fitzgerald, Lullabies of birdland -- Ella Fitzgerald, Mack the knife : Ella in Berlin -- Judy Garland, Judy at Carnegie Hall -- Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman -- Dick Haynes, Rain or Shine -- Billie Holiday, Lady in satin -- Lena Horne, Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria -- Barb Jungr, Every grain of sand : Barb Jungr sings Bob Dylan -- Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross, Sing a song of Basie ; Annie Ross, Sings a song with Mulligan! -- Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence, Eydie and Steve sing the golden hits -- Peggy Lee, Black coffee -- Peggy Lee, The man I love -- Marilyn Maye, Meet marvelous Marilyn Maye -- Carmen McRae, As time goes by : live at the Dug -- Anita O'Day, Anita O'Day sings the winners -- Della Reese, Della Della cha cha cha -- Jimmy Scott, The source and Lost and found -- Bobby Short, Bobby Short -- Nina Simone, Nina Simone and piano! -- Frank Sinatra, In the wee small hours -- Frank Sinatra, Songs for swingin' lovers! -- Jo Stafford, Jo Stafford sings American folk songs and Jo Stafford sings songs of Scotland -- Jo Stafford, I'll be seeing you (G.I. Jo) -- Kay Starr, I cry by night -- Maxine Sullivan, Memories of you : a tribute to Andy Razaf -- Jack Teagarden, Think well of me -- Tiny Tim, God bless Tiny Tim -- Mel Tormé, Mel Tormé with Marty Paich Dek-Tette (Lulu's back in town) -- Sarah Vaughan, Sara Vaughan -- Sarah Vaughan, "Live" in Japan -- Dinah Washington, Dinah Washington sings Fats Waller -- Margaret Whiting, Margaret Whiting sings the Jerome Kern song book -- Lee Wiley, Night in Manhattan -- Cassandra Wilson, Belly of the sun -- Discography.

"The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz and pop singers have been most tellingly and lastingly appreciated, and the history of the album itself, as Will Friedwald sketches it, can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history. We come to understand that, at their finest, albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right. A Sinatra album, a Fitzgerald album, was planned and structured to show these artists at their best, at a specific moment in their artistic careers. Yet the albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety of ways. There are studio and solo albums: Lee’s Black Coffee, June Christy’s Something Cool, Cassandra Wilson’s Belly of the Sun. There are brilliant collaborations: famous ones -- Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson -- and wonderful surprises like Doris Day and Robert Goulet singing Annie Get Your Gun. There are theme albums -- Dinah Washington singing Fats Waller, Maxine Sullivan singing Andy Razaf, Margaret Whiting singing Jerome Kern, Barb Jungr singing Bob Dylan, and the sublime Jo Stafford singing American and Scottish folk songs. There are also stunning concert albums like Ella in Berlin, Sarah in Japan, Lena at the Waldorf, and, of course, Judy at Carnegie Hall. All the greats are on hand, from Kay Starr and Carmen McRae to Jimmy Scott and Della Reese (Della Della Cha Cha Cha). And, from out of left field, the astounding God Bless Tiny Tim. Each of the fifty-seven albums discussed here captures the artist at a high point, if not at the expected moment, of her or his career. The individual cuts are evaluated, the sequencing explicated, the songs and songwriters heralded; anecdotes abound of how songs were born and how artists and producers collaborated. And in appraising each album, Friedwald balances his own opinions with those of musicians, listeners, and critics. A monumental achievement, The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums is an essential book for lovers of American jazz and popular music."--Publisher.

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