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"The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music-how it outlasted sentimental...
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"For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock ' n' roll is today. In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent two years traveling across Europe talking with individuals who performed and enjoyed jazz in Hitler's dark shadow, including the Ghetto Swingers, a Jewish jazz band that "toured" Auschwitz and Theresienstadt; the Luftwaffe pilot who listened to Glenn...
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"Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expressiveness. One of the thrills of listening to Sinatra is wondering how he did it-and this book explains it all, bringing the dedicated fan and the casual...
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"Almost unbearably vivid ... James Gavin has brought us as close as life to his subject." --David Hajdu, New York Times Book Review "Definitive ... a haunting prose poem that's every bit as affecting as one of Baker's solos." --Entertainment Weekly "Superb ... unerring ... a stark, troubling portrait of both the artist and his times." --Publisher's Weekly This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild...
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"A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor," Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint vivid portraits of Walker, Roosevelt and the large cast of characters who played a part in Walker's fall from grace and Roosevelt's meteoric rise to four-term...
18) Cheek to cheek
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Streamline/Columbia/Interscope
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2014
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett release their long-awaited collaborative album, which features handpicked selections from the Great American Songbook including Anything Goes; It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); and Nature Boy.
"3 out of 5. ...the queen of the little monsters more than proves she can be a sophisticated lady too."--Rolling Stone
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