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Acknowledgments | 9 | |
Pt. I | Prelude | |
Ch. 1 | Cousin Joe of New Orleans | 13 |
Ch. 2 | Louis Armstrong: "Everyone's Pops" | 21 |
Ch. 3 | The Eloquent Ethel Waters | 33 |
Ch. 4 | Bing ... and, of Course, Fred Astaire ... and Bobby McFerrin | 43 |
Ch. 5 | Cab | 55 |
Pt. II | Big-Band Era | |
Ch. 6 | The Big-Band Singers: Introduction | 67 |
Ch. 7 | The Kansas City Singers: Little Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner and Pha Terrell | 71 |
Ch. 8 | "There Was No Middle Ground with Billie Holiday" | 80 |
Ch. 9 | Tales of Big-Band-Era Singers | 100 |
Pt. III | Singers on Their Own | |
Ch. 10 | Singers' Camaraderie: Thelma Carpenter, Etta Jones and Helen Merrill | 119 |
Ch. 11 | Beyond the Vibrato: The Cutting Edge of Billy Eckstine, Heartthrob | 132 |
Ch. 12 | The Instrumentalists Sing: A Jazz Subculture | 141 |
Ch. 13 | Feeding the Maw with Tunes: From Leo Watson to Eddie Jefferson to Lorraine Feather | 148 |
Ch. 14 | A Coat of Many Colors for Jon Hendricks: Lyricist Laureate of Jazz | 160 |
Ch. 15 | "You Are My Goddam Sunshine": Mel Torme | 187 |
Ch. 16 | Nat "King" Cole | 195 |
Ch. 17 | "Ice Was a Three-Note Thing": Joe Williams | 207 |
Ch. 18 | Dinah Washington's Love Stories | 224 |
Ch. 19 | Lady O'Day: The Case of the Missing Uvula | 234 |
Ch. 20 | Mabel Mercer, Boite Star | 238 |
Ch. 21 | A Great Critic Says a Few Words About the Legendary Frank Sinatra | 243 |
Ch. 22 | The Glorious Voice of Sarah Vaughan | 246 |
Ch. 23 | The Time of Ella Fitzgerald | 255 |
Ch. 24 | Noodling with Norman Simmons About Carmen McRae | 262 |
Ch. 25 | The Feeling of Carmen McRae | 278 |
Ch. 26 | "We Should Have Gone More Places": Annie Ross | 283 |
Ch. 27 | Tony Bennett: "A Rhythmic Rapport" | 293 |
Ch. 28 | Rosemary Clooney: Interpretations from the Labyrinth | 301 |
Ch. 29 | One of Billie's Children: Sylvia Syms | 305 |
Ch. 30 | The Lure of Birdland and Environs, Leading to a Night in El Paso | 310 |
Ch. 31 | Jazz-Boite Singing | 315 |
Pt. IV | The B-Natural Generation: "They Reflect the Times They Live In" | |
Ch. 32 | Betty Carter: Guru of "Out" | 324 |
Ch. 33 | Andy Bey's Subtely; Joe Lee Wilson's Reverberations | 337 |
Ch. 34 | Janet Lawson's Scat Songs | 341 |
Ch. 35 | The Beat of Tania Maria: "A Piano Is Not Like a Man" | 348 |
Ch. 36 | The View from January 1, 2001 | 357 |
A List of Singers | 367 | |
Singers of the 1980s and 1990s | 370 | |
Bibliography | 373 | |
Index to the Original Edition | 377 |
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