Will Friedwald

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Will Friedwald (* 1961 ) is an American jazz critic, author and producer.

Life

Will Friedwald has been a jazz critic for Downbeat , Jazz Times , and Jazz News since the 1980s and works as a freelance record producer in New York. He has also written for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , The Village Voice , Newsday , The New York Observer and The New York Sun, as well as for magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, Oxford American, New York , Mojo, BBC Music Magazine, Stereo Review , Fi (Delity) and other music and film magazines. He is also the author of several books on jazz history, particularly the history of the Great American Songbook ; in Germany his work Swinging Voices of America - A Compendium of Great Voices by Hannibal was published in 1992 . His biography of Frank Sinatra was awarded the 1996 Deems Taylor Award of ASCAP excellent. Together with Friedwald, Tony Bennett brought out his autobiography The Good Life in 1998 . Friedwald - described as " The Poet Laureate of vintage pop music " - works with one of the most comprehensive databases; he has over 200,000 songs on his Power Mac G5 .

Quote

“In the 30s you would never have taken your mother to a jazz concert [...] It happened underground. Even in the black community he was frowned upon at first. The black middle class, the parishes, looked down on jazz. It was associated with gambling, with the lower class, with immorality. Only artists like Ellington and Ella gave jazz a certain reputation "

- Will Friedwald as a commentator in the documentary Pure Love - The voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Publications

  • Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond Scribner's Sons, New York. 1990. (German: Swinging Voices of America - A compendium of great voices . Hannibal, St. Andrä-WIERT, 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3 )
  • Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer's Art (German: Frank Sinatra - A man and his music Hannibal, St. Andrä-Wierter, 1996 ISBN 978-3-85445-121-1 )
  • Stardust Melodies: the Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
  • Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: An Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons
  • Tony Bennett / Will Friedwald: The Good Life . 1998
  • Will Friedwald / Yuval Taylor: The Future of Jazz , ISBN 978-1-55652-446-2

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Pure Love - The voice of Ella Fitzgerald ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Documentary by Katja Duregger, 2017, 53 min. (Quote from minute 7:04). Produced by Tag / Traum Filmproduktion (Cologne), in cooperation with SWR and arte @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
personal data
SURNAME Friedwald, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz critic, writer, and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961