The great jazz and pop vocal albums
Inbunden bok. Pantheon Books New York. First edition uppl. 2017. 402 sidor.
Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. Each 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 albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety od ways. There are studio solo albums like Lee's Black Coffee, there are brilliant collaborations, and wonderful surprises like Doris Day and Robert Goulet singing Annie get you gun. There are theme albums - Dianah Washington singing Fats Waller. There are also stunn ing concert albums like Ella i Berlin. This is an essential book for lovers of American jazz and popular music.
