JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Hollywood Musicals</i>)

This is an excellent coffee-table book that comprehensively reviews over 1300 Hollywood musicals. The book is organized by year, beginning in 1927 and, depending on the edition, ending somewhere in the 1980’s. Nearly all the films have at least one photo.

For those researching jazz standards, the songs for each film are listed. The persons who sang them are credited occasionally. There are multiple indexes for songs, composers and lyricists, films, performers, and other creative personnel.

At the time of its publication, Clive Hirschhorn was a film critic and then a drama critic for the London Sunday Express. He is also the author of Gene Kelly: A Biography; The Universal Story: The Complete History of the Studio and All Its Films; The Columbia Story; and The Films of James Mason.

About the Bookstore

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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.

Some of our books may be found at Amazon for two or three dollars!

The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are listed in this bookstore and may be considered the site bibliography.

The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked, please let us know the title and how it supports the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.

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