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Jazz for Curious Readers
Will Friedwald
February 7, 2011

Will Friedwald is a respected American author and music critic. He has written for such newspapers as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, and for a variety of other magazines and music and film journals.

His books include Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond, Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer's Art, Stardust Melodies: the Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs and Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: An Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, among others.

His most recent book, A Biographical Guide to Pop and Jazz Singers (Pantheon), will be the topic of conversation this evening.

His Sinatra bio was awarded the 1996 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism. He is also the owner of perhaps the world's largest iTunes library with more than 170,000 tracks.

Will Friedwald and Loren Schoenberg

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