Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington - Rilegato

Cohodas, Nadine

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ISBN 10: 0375421483 ISBN 13: 9780375421488

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 2004

Riassunto

Drawing on personal documents and interviews with family and colleagues, a vivid biography of the legendary singer chronicles the remarkable music and turbulent personal life of Dinah Washington, describing her distinctive talent, rise to success, desperate quest for love, and tragic death at the age of thirty-nine from an overdose of prescription weight-loss drugs. 17,500 first printing.

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“The Queen: God bless her. Anyone who loved Dinah Washington as I did will appreciate this book by Nadine Cohodas, which beautifully documents the joys and sorrows of the life of this lady who was a peer of her contemporaries Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Billie Holliday.”
--George Wein, author of Myself Among Others and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival

“Dinah Washington died at thirty-nine, but packed so much life and incident into every moment it’s a wonder that Nadine Cohodas could sort it out; the marital adventures alone might have daunted a less avid biographer. Nor does she slight her music. Dinah could make every kind of song vital and personal, no matter the context–jazz, blues, swing, pop, r&b, or r&r. Cohodas captures the Queen in all her obstinate spitfire glory.”
--Gary Giddins, author of Weather Bird and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams

L'autore:

Nadine Cohodas is the author of Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change, The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss,and Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records,which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2000 and inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2002 as a classic of blues literature. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375421483
• ISBN 13: 9780375421488
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 576