JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Gershwin: A Biography</i>)

This is one of the better biographies of the brilliant composer who wrote over two dozen of the best jazz standards. The focus is mainly on his social and career history, enriched by Jablonski’s personal relationship with Ira Gershwin which gave him access to the Gershwin Archive and family photographs. Index includes song titles.

More on his music may be found in The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin, edited by Wayne Schneider, and The Music of Gershwin by Steven Gilbert.

Edward Jablonski is the author of Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues and The Encyclopedia of American Music and co-author of The Gershwin Years: George and Ira. His articles have appeared in major periodicals and in The New York Times. He has served as consultant to several Gershwin television productions.

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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.

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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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