Singers and the Song II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 February 2000
- ISBN 9780195122084
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 203x135x13 mm
- Weight 236 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic volume is being re-released in an expanded edition. Together with substantial revisions of the previous essays, this edition offers seven remarkable new essays on Ella Fitzgerald, Jackie and Roy Kral, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Julius La Rosa, Yip Harburg, Harry Warren, and Arthur Schwartz.
Here then is an engaging volume that weaves together colourful portraits of major performers and insightful glimpses into the art of singing and songwriting.
Long description:
Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic volume is being rereleased in an expanded edition.
The new edition retains a number of famous pieces from the original volume, some in expanded form, such as Lees's classic profile of Frank Sinatra. Lees has also retained his marvelous essay on lyric writing, his piece on the art of Edith Piaf, and his admiring look at the genius of songwriter Johnny Mercer. The expanded edition offers seven new essays that are no less accomplished. Here readers will find a wonderful tribute to "the sweetest voice in the world," Ella Fitzgerald; a moving interview with Jackie and Roy Kral; Lees's account of his involvement with Bossa Nova music and his collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim. We also read about Julius La Rosa, the lyrics of Yip Harburg, Harry Warren's unforgettable compositions, and the elegant Arthur Schwartz, writer of "Dancing in the Dark" and many other memorable songs.
Here then is an engaging volume that weaves together colourful portraits of major performers and insightful glimpses into the art of singing and songwriting.
