{"product_id":"9780307379078","title":"The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eFriedwald, Will\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePantheon\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/7\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eThe author of the magisterial \u003ci\u003eA Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers \u003c\/i\u003enow approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest \u003ci\u003ealbums, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYet the albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety of ways. There are studio and solo albums: Lee’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Coffee, \u003c\/i\u003eJune Christy’s \u003ci\u003eSomething Cool, \u003c\/i\u003eCassandra Wilson’s \u003ci\u003eBelly of the Sun. \u003c\/i\u003eThere 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 \u003ci\u003eAnnie Get Your Gun\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eJudy at Carnegie Hall. \u003c\/i\u003eAll the greats are on hand, from Kay Starr and Carmen McRae to Jimmy Scott and Della Reese (\u003ci\u003eDella Della Cha Cha Cha\u003c\/i\u003e). And, from out of left field, the astounding \u003ci\u003eGod Bless Tiny Tim.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential book for lovers of American jazz and popular music.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43380042498303,"sku":"9780307379078","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780307379078_s600x595.jpg?v=1775593226","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780307379078","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}