Will Friedwald (Producer and Producer writer and writer)

Straighten Up and Fly Right

The Life and Music of Nat King Cole

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Produktbeschreibung

In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.

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Produktdetails

• Cultural Biographies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 170mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1124g
• ISBN-13: 9780190882044
• ISBN-10: 0190882042
• Artikelnr.: 57828935

Autorenporträt

Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The Wall Street Journal as well as for magazines such as Vanity Fair. He is also the associate producer and writer of Michael Feinstein's Jazz and Popular Song Series at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has produced shows for Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, The Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, 54 Below, Urban Stages, The Friars Club, and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward by John Pizzarelli
Intro: "Of Falling Blossoms and Paper Moons"
Prelude: Paris, 1930
Origin Story (1919-1937)
Act One: The King Cole Trio
1. The Birth of the Trio (1937-1943)
2. Rise of the Trio (1943-1946)
3. Interlude: Nat and Norman: The "Jam Sessions" (1942-1946)
4. Expanding the Canvas (1946-1947)
5. Entr'acte: Trio to Quartet to Solo (1948-1951)
Act Two: Nat King Cole
6. Nat and Nelson: "Mona Lisa" to Two in Love (1950-1954)
7. Assault on a King (1955-1956)
8. Years of Stardust (1956-1959)
9. "The Ends of the Earth" (1960-1962)
10. Requiem for a King (1962-1964)
Postscript: The Afterlife (1965 and Beyond)