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050 00 $aML420.C63$bE67 1999
082 00 $a782.42164/092$aB$221
100 1 $aEpstein, Daniel Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81131653
245 10 $aNat King Cole /$cDaniel Mark Epstein.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c1999.
300 $aviii, 437 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [401]-420) and index.
520 1 $a"When he died in 1965, at age forty-five, Nat King Cole was already a musical legend. As famous as Frank Sinatra, he had sold more records than anyone but Bing Crosby."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Written with the narrative pacing of a novel, this biography traces Cole's rise to fame, from boy-wonder jazz genius to mega-star in a racist society. Daniel Mark Epstein brings Cole and his times to vivid life: his precocious entrance onto the vibrant jazz scene of his hometown, Chicago; the creation of his Trio and their rise to fame; the crossover success of such songs as "Straighten Up and Fly Right"; and his years as a pop singer and television star, the first African-American to have his own show.
520 8 $aEpstein examines Cole's insistence on changing society through his art rather than political activism, the romantic love story of Cole and Maria Ellington, and Cole's famous and influential image of calm, poise, and elegance, which concealed the personal turmoil and anxiety that undermined his health."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCole, Nat King,$d1919-1965.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84072857
650 0 $aSingers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111680
852 00 $boff,mus$hML420.C63$iE67 1999