American Singers

University Press of Mississippi (Editora)

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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

Sobre o Livro

Coletânea de perfis jornalísticos de cantores publicada originalmente em The New Yorker, com foco em vozes do jazz e do popular americano.

Esta edição revista amplia o volume com treze perfis adicionais, oferecendo escolhas de leitura úteis para cursos sobre música americana e jornalismo cultural.

Textos de caráter biográfico e crítico trazem descrições de repertório, abordagens vocais e contextos históricos, destinados a leitores interessados em performance e crítica musical.

Características

Categoria	Música
Subcategoria	Biografias musicais
Autores	Whitney Balliett
Sobre o Autor	Whitney Balliett foi jornalista e escritor de peças sobre música e músicos, com longa carreira na imprensa cultural.