JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Singing Jazz: The Singers and Their Styles</i>)

In addition to biographies of jazz singers of yesterday and today, this is a how-to book for singers. There are tips on finding work, building repertoire, traveling, performing and more. Contemporary singers discuss their influences and comment on the state of the art form. The reference section also lists the important recordings of over 200 singers.

For jazz standards fans and researchers Singing Jazz provides an insightful view of the jazz profession, what it used to be and what it has become. The general index includes songs by titles.

JazzStandards.com has a more in-depth review of this book, along with Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide and Jazz Singing: America’s Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond at our page titled On Jazz and Singers: Three Books.

Bruce Crowther and Mike Pinfold are also the authors of The Jazz Singers: from Ragtime to the New Wave and The Big Band Years (with Franklin S. Driggs). Crowther authored Gene Krupa: His Life and Times and Benny Goodman while Pinfold wrote Louis Armstrong: His Life and Times.

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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