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100 1 $aFriedwald, Will,$d1961-$eauthor.
245 10 $aStraighten up and fly right :$bthe life and music of Nat King Cole /$cWill Friedwald.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $a1 online resource (xv, 633 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :$billustrations
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490 1 $aOxford cultural biographies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on this fascinating musician, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star. In Cole's early phase, Friedwald explains, his primary task of keeping his trio going was just as much of a focus for him as his own playing and singing, always a collective or group performance. In the second act, Cole's collaborators were more likely to be arranger-conductors like Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, rather than his sidemen on bass and guitar. In the first act, his sidemen were equals, in the second phase, his collaborators were tasked exclusively with putting the focus on him, making him sound good, while being largely invisible themselves. Friedwald brings his full musical knowledge to bear in putting the man in the work, demonstrating how this duality appears over and over again in Cole's life and career: jazz vs. pop, solo vs. trio, piano vs. voice, wife number one (Nadine) vs. wife number two (Maria), the good songs vs. the less-than-good songs, the rhythm numbers vs. the ballads, the funny songs and novelties vs. the "serious" songs of love and loss, Cole as an advocate for the Great American Songbook vs. Cole the intrepid explorer of other options: world music, rhythm & blues, country & western. Cole was different from his contemporaries in other ways; for roughly ten years after the war, the majority of hitmakers on the pop charts were veterans of the big band experience, from Sinatra on down"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aCover -- Half title -- Series -- Straighten Up and Fly Right -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction by Gary Giddins -- Foreword by John Pizzarelli -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Of Falling Blossoms and Paper Moons -- Prelude : Paris, 1930 -- Origin Story (1919-​1937) -- The King Cole Trio -- 1. The Birth of the Trio : 1937-​1943 -- 2. The Rise of the Trio : 1943-​1946 -- 3. Interlude : Nat and Norman : The "Jam Sessions," 1942-​1946 -- 4. Expanding the Canvas : 1946-​1947 -- 5. Entr'acte : Trio to Quartet to Solo, 1948-​1951 -- Nat King Cole -- 6. Nat and Nelson : "Mona Lisa" to Two in Love, 1950-​1954 -- 7. Assault on a King: 1955-​1956 -- 8. Years of Stardust, Night Lights, and Fear of the Dark: 1957-​1959 -- 9. The Ends of the Earth : 1960-​1961 -- 10. Requiem for a King : 1962-​1964 -- Postscript: The Afterlife : 1965 and Beyond -- Notes -- Index
588 $aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 24, 2020).
600 10 $aCole, Nat King,$d1919-1965.
600 17 $aCole, Nat King,$d1919-1965.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01757545
650 0 $aSingers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPianists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aJazz musicians$zUnited States$vBiography.
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650 7 $aPianists.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01063351
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830 0 $aOxford cultural biographies.
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