JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Cole Porter: A Biography</i>)

Cole Porter was the epitome of urbanity and elegance, just like his music and lyrics. His social life at home and abroad was dazzling. Schwartz offers the reader an intimate and revealing portrait of this fascinating, extraordinary man.

With regard to jazz standards, only five men can claim credit for writing more songs than Cole Porter. For years, this was the Porter biography you would most likely find in a bookstore, written for popular appeal, focusing on Porter’s life and times and less on his music and lyrics.

Charles Schwartz is a professor of music, the composer of “Jazz Symphony, Professor Jive,” and the author of Gershwin: His Life and Music.

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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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