This comprehensive study of jazz singing is a revelation to anyone who owns at least one jazz recording and a must for the serious jazz enthusiast. Friedwald traces the growth and development of jazz, discusses performers who have never been thought of as jazz singers, and looks at contemporary artists who have incorporated jazz into their music.
Editorial Review
"The best study of jazz/pop singing ever published." --The Washington Post Book World
"As sprightly, individual and definitive as a Louis Armstrong vocal." --Newsday
"I couldn't stop reading it...it confirmed for me who the giants really are, from Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby who started it all, to the greats like Billy Eckstine and Ella Fitzgerald. 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
"The most entertaining, capacious, and, in the best sense of the word, idiosyncratic book on jazz singing to date...Jazz Singing will provoke many arguments and resolve many more." --Gary Giddins, author of Celebrating Bird and Rythm-a-ning
About the Author
Will Friedwald is the author of The Warner Bros. Cartoons, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and Sinatra! The Song Is You.
