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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern and Joe Mooney, they have created a body of work that continues to please and inspire. Here is the most extensive biographical and critical survey of these singers ever written, as well as an essential guide to the Great American Songbook and those who shaped the way it has been sung. The music crosses from jazz to pop and back ...
The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals
The 1970s was an exciting decade for musical theatre. Besides shows from legends Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita), old-fashioned musicals (Annie) and major revivals (No, No, Nanette) became hits. In addition to underappreciated shows like Over Here! and cult musicals such as The Grass Harp and Mack and Mabel, Broadway audiences were entertained by black musicals on the order of The Wiz and Raisin. In The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway during the 1970s. In addition to including every hit and flop that debuted during...
The Invisible Clarinetist
He calls himself "The Invisible Clarinetist" since he never really achieved the kind of fame or notoriety he might have liked. This story is about his musical life and about some of the people who have come to share and enrich it. Music has always been his first love but his wife and family of ten children had to be his first priority, and raising ten kids is another book all by itself. This book celebrates his musical life as he lived it. This accountability, as he calls it, is dedicated and intended for his children, so they know how hard he had to work to support them and accounted for why he wasn't around much while they were growing up. He had to work day jobs plus playing the music at night. I guess if he had to blame someone for what some people may call neglect, or child abuse, it would have to be Benny Goodman the great Chicago jazz clarinetist. He heard an early recording of Benny with the Ben Pollack band and fell in love with his hot playing.
Flirting With Death
Detective Richard Young is a Chicago detective who works for a squad that plays by a different set of rules, and this is evident once he encounters Jamie Perez. The story quickly unfolds once he discovers that Jamie is Julie Wilson's niece. Julie Wilson is the criminal mastermind that was put behind bars by Richard and his crew. However, now that she's out of jail, Richard knows she's going to be vengeful, so with Jamie coming out of the woodworks at the same time as Julie's release, he's a little skeptical about the things she says and the actions she takes. It brings the question to mind: is she genuine or is she toying with him for the satisfaction of her aunt. Not only does he discover that Jamie is Julie's niece, but the truth is also revealed about his girlfriend, Madison Miller, and his partner/best-friend, Jared Hubbard. Richard's friendships and ability to work through controversy will be put to the test. Will he be able to push through?
To the Extreme
Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern “extreme” sports.
Kansas and the West
By incorporating voices from history that have too long been lost in the din of tradition--especially the voices of Native Americans and blacks, women and laborers--Kansas and the West provides a provocative and much-needed new view of the state's past.
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