American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song
by Balliett, Whitney
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/DJ Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195046102
- ISBN 13
- 9780195046106
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 256pp. From the Publishers Weekly review: The original, now out of print edition of American Singers reprinted biographical studies of 12 American "non-academic" vocalists from the New Yorker, for which Balliett has been jazz critic since 1957. Now double the size of its 1979 edition, the book contains new chapters on Julius La Rosa, Peggy Lee, George Shearing and Mel Torme, cabaret singer Julie Wilson, singer-pianists Cleo Brown and Nellie Lutcher, Betty Carter ("her onstage presence . . . is sound made three-dimensional"), Carol Sloane ("conversation put to music") and songwriter-pianist-singer David Frishberg ("good lyrics come up to the edge of poetry and turn left"). One of the best interviewers in the field, Balliett peppers his articles with long, revealing quotations. Perhaps the most satisfying section here is the opening chapter, about songwriter-composer-lyricist Alec Wilder ("president of the derriere-garde"), whose funny, philosophic, hyperbolic attitudes on death, privacy and money, abhorrence of possessions, disregard for the recorded past and dislike of hirsute appendages are highlights of this delightful book.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/DJ Fine. Large Octavo.
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- Title
- American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song
- Author
- Balliett, Whitney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Fine
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0195046102
- ISBN 13
- 9780195046106
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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