Books by Stuart Nicholson and Complete Book Reviews
Stuart Nicholson, Author Northeastern University Press $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55553-303-8
This chronicle of the brilliant jazz singer's troubled life is a ""sensitive, perceptive biography,"" wrote PW. (July)
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Stuart Nicholson, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (334p) ISBN 978-0-684-19699-2
For his exhaustive biography, Nicholson ( Jazz: The Modern Resurgence ) draws on written accounts of the legendary singer and on interviews with her childhood friends and musicians who have worked with her; he was unable to arrange to talk with...
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Stuart Nicholson, Author Northeastern University Press $45 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55553-248-2
Basing his sensitive, perceptive biography on interviews with those who knew the great jazz singer (1915-1959) and on extensive research in court records, police files and newspaper accounts, Nicholson (Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady
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Stuart Nicholson, Author Schirmer Trade Books $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-02-864679-4
In this encyclopedic work, Nicholson (Billie Holiday) chronicles the development of jazz-rock from the early interactions of jazz and rock in the 1960s--a time when jazz seemed to many to be at a dead end--to the present day. He emphasizes that the...
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Stuart Nicholson, Author Northeastern University Press $42.5 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55553-380-9
Nicholsons lively, unconventional biography of the great jazz composer, bandleader and pianist amounts to a kind of jazz collage. Keeping third-person historical narrative to a minimum, Nicholson (Billie Holiday) presents Ellingtons life through...
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