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03073aam a22003858i 4500 001 233AF0CCBB6011EA94CB452497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200701010008 008 191029s2020 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019049936 020 $a 0190882042 020 $a 9780190882044 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a ML420.C63 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Friedwald, Will, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Straighten up and fly right : $b the life and music of Nat King Cole / $c Will Friedwald. 260 $a New York City : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 263 $a 2004 300 $a 633 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Cultural biographies 504 $a Includes 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Cole, Nat King, $d 1919-1965. 650 0 $a Singers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Pianists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jazz musicians $z United States $v Biography. 941 $a 5 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024413.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210803010532.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103021206.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20200704010251.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200701010405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=233AF0CCBB6011EA94CB452497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search