Will Friedwald, Author . Pantheon $27.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-42089-4
"The American Popular Song is like a car full of clowns at the circus: from the outside it looks small and unassuming, yet you can't believe how much is contained inside," notes Friedwald in his introduction and, indeed, Tin Pan Alley...
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Will Friedwald, Pantheon, $45 (832p) ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5
In this passionately opinionated encyclopedia of the old-school virtuosos of the American songbook, music writer Friedwald (Sinatra!) celebrates 200-odd performers of jazz and pop standards, from the mid-20th-century titans—Louis Armstrong, Bing...
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Will Friedwald, Author Scribner Book Company $32 (560p) ISBN 978-0-684-19368-7
This admiring account of Frank Sinatra's career provides only sporadic glimpses of the singer's personal life, focusing instead on the music. Friedwald (Jazz Singing) portrays Sinatra as an artistic rebel in the 1940s who campaigned for style and...
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Will Friedwald. Pantheon, $40 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-37907-8
With verve and an infectious love of music, jazz critic Friedwald (A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers) tells the stories of 57 jazz and pop albums that have become benchmarks by which subsequent recordings have been measured....
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Will Friedwald, Author, Ted Gioia, Joint Author, Jim Macnie, Joint Author Chicago Review Press $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55652-446-2
Will jazz be marginalized in the next hundred years, or will it experience a rebirth? This is the question that looms over the 10 lively essays by such music critics and musicians as Ted Gioia, Ben Ratliff and Greg Tate in The Future of Jazz....
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Will Friedwald. Oxford, $34.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-19-088204-4
In this richly detailed biography, Friedwald (The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums) tells the mesmerizing life story of singer and musician Nat King Cole (1919–1965). Friedwald covers Cole’s early life in Montgomery, Ala., and his move to Chicago,...
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Will Friedwald. Backbeat, $34.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-493084-12-8
Music journalist Friedwald (Jazz Singing) collects his columns published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun between 2003 and 2024 for this exuberant ode to the great jazz pianists. Beginning in turn-of-the-20th century New Orleans,...
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