Whitney Balliett

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American Singers: 27 Portraits in SongPaperback, 1 October 1988

American Singers: 27 Portraits in Song
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Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Date Published
1 Oct 1988
ISBN-10
1578068355
ISBN-13
9781578068357

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When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about everyone from Jack Teagarden and Art Tatum to Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman." And Bruce Cook in The New Leader called the book "the quintessential Whitney Balliett, the cream of the cream, a collection that leaves no doubt about his strength."

That book gathered together all of Balliett's profiles of jazz instrumentalists. Here, in the revised edition of American Singers, Balliett has added thirteen new biographical profiles to double the size of the book and provide the perfect complement to American Musicians. It now contains all the profiles on singers that Balliett has written for The New Yorker. Alongside original chapters on such great vocalists as Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Joe Tur

Product Details

Author:
Whitney Balliett
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 October 1988
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.37 cm
ISBN-10:
1578068355
ISBN-13:
9781578068357
Language:
English
Location:
Jackson
Pages:
256
Weight:
362.87 gm

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