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100 1  Friedwald, Will,|d1961-|eauthor. 
245 10 Straighten up and fly right :|bthe life and music of Nat 
       King Cole /|cWill Friedwald. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2020] 
300    xv, 633 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Oxford cultural biographies 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "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. 
600 10 Cole, Nat King,|d1919-1965. 
600 17 Cole, Nat King,|d1919-1965.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01757545 
650  0 Singers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Pianists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Jazz musicians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  7 Jazz musicians.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00982205 
650  7 Pianists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01063351 
650  7 Singers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01119301 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aFriedwald, Will, 1961-|tStraighten up 
       and fly right|dNew York City : Oxford University Press, 
       2020.|z9780190882051|w(DLC)  2019049936 
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