JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Nat King Cole</i>)

Cole is, indeed, unforgettable, and this biography traces his career from phenomenal jazz pianist to one of the world’s most successful vocalists. The discography is useful in dating his hits, and the final chapter, although written in 1985, deals with the children left behind by his untimely death in 1965.

James Haskins is the author of Bricktop (with Bricktop), The Cotton Club, and, with Kathleen Benson, of Scott Joplin, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and Lena.

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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