JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Stardust Melodies</i>)

With regard to jazz standards, each song receives extensive documentation on its origin, a detailed discussion of the music and lyrics, and extensive comments on its recording history. Friedwald’s writing has been characterized as opinionated. But, knowing that, this book should still be of great interest to both recreational readers and researchers. There is no index.

Will Friedwald is the author of The Future of Jazz, Jazz Singing: America’s Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond, and Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer’s Art. He co-authored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: Complete Illustrated Guide to Warner Bros. Cartoons with Jerry Beck.

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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