Straighten up and fly right: the life and music of Nat King Cole
"One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating musician, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star. In Cole's early phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping his trio going was just as much of a focus for him as his own playing and singing, always a collective or group performance. In the second act, Cole's collaborators were more likely to be arranger-conductors like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, rather than his sidemen on bass and guitar. In the first act, his sidemen were equals, in the second phase, his collaborators were tasked exclusively with putting the focus on him, making him sound good, while being largely invisible themselves. Friedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the man in the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) vs. wife number two (Maria), the good songs vs. the less-than-good songs, the rhythm numbers vs. the ballads, the funny songs and novelties vs. the "serious" songs of love and loss, Cole as an advocate for the Great American Songbook vs. Cole the intrepid explorer of other options: world music, rhythm & blues, country & western. Cole was different from his contemporaries in other ways; for roughly ten years after the war, the majority of hitmakers on the pop charts were veterans of the big band experience, from Sinatra on down"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Editors Introduction by Gary Giddins ix Foreword byJohn Pizzarelli xi xiii Acknowledgments Introduction: Of Falling Blossoms and Paper Moons Prelude: Paris, 1930 i 11 Origin Story (1919-1937) 13 ACT ONE: The King Cole Trio 1. The Birth of the Trio: 1937-1943 43 2. The Rise of the Trio: 1943-1946 96 3. Interlude: Nat and Norman: The “Jam Sessions,” 1942-1946 145 4. Expanding the Canvas: 1946-1947 179 5. Entr’acte: Trio to Quartet to Solo, 1948-195։ 210 ACT TWO -.Nat King Cole 6. Nat and Nelson: “Mona Lisa” to Two in Love, 1950-1954 263 7. Assault on a King: 1955-1956 302
viii Contents 8. Years of Stardust, Night Lights, and Fear of the Dark: 1957-1959 349 9. The Ends of the Earth: 1960-1961 408 10. Requiem for a King: 1962-1964 463 Postscript: The Afterlife: 1965 and Beyond 519 Notes 529 Index 593
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Contents Editors Introduction by Gary Giddins ix Foreword byJohn Pizzarelli xi xiii Acknowledgments Introduction: Of Falling Blossoms and Paper Moons Prelude: Paris, 1930 i 11 Origin Story (1919-1937) 13 ACT ONE: The King Cole Trio 1. The Birth of the Trio: 1937-1943 43 2. The Rise of the Trio: 1943-1946 96 3. Interlude: Nat and Norman: The “Jam Sessions,” 1942-1946 145 4. Expanding the Canvas: 1946-1947 179 5. Entr’acte: Trio to Quartet to Solo, 1948-195։ 210 ACT TWO -.Nat King Cole 6. Nat and Nelson: “Mona Lisa” to Two in Love, 1950-1954 263 7. Assault on a King: 1955-1956 302
viii Contents 8. Years of Stardust, Night Lights, and Fear of the Dark: 1957-1959 349 9. The Ends of the Earth: 1960-1961 408 10. Requiem for a King: 1962-1964 463 Postscript: The Afterlife: 1965 and Beyond 519 Notes 529 Index 593 |
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