Louis Armstrong pioneered the jazz vocal. Based on dozens of interviews, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse performers who inherited Satchmo's legacy and made it their own. They are Ethel Waters, Bing Crosby, Bobby McFerrin, Cab Calloway, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Nat "King" Cole, Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, and many others. This edition has been updated with a substantial new chapter that focuses on current artists like Cassandra Wilson and Harry Connick, Jr.
- ISBN10 0815411146
- ISBN13 9780815411147
- Publish Date 22 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 10 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Edition Updated ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English