"I think constantly about the lyrics and what they mean, and I try to make my listeners feel the vision of what the words are saying.”
Balliett’s comprehensive collection of profiles of American masters, including Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Joe Turner, Alberta Hunter, Mel Tormé, Julius La Rosa, George Shearing, Peggy Lee, Hugh Shannon, Mabel Mercer, Bobby Short, Blossom Dearie, and Julie Wilson, amongst other jazz greats.
Author: Whitney Balliett
Title: American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song
Edition:: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 244p
Condition: Near fine copy, in near fine dust jacket in dust jacket cover.
Comments: Clean copy
