{"product_id":"american-singers-27-portraits-in-song-9781578068357","title":"American Singers: 27 Portraits in Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Whitney Balliett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Pop Vocal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Whitney Balliett's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, said \"no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about everyone from Jack Teagarden and Art Tatum to Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman.\" And Bruce Cook in \u003ci\u003eThe New Leader\u003c\/i\u003e called the book \"the quintessential Whitney Balliett, the cream of the cream, a collection that leaves no doubt about his strength.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat book gathered together all of Balliett's profiles of jazz instrumentalists. Here, in the revised edition of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Singers\u003c\/i\u003e, Balliett has added thirteen new biographical profiles to double the size of the book and provide the perfect complement to \u003ci\u003eAmerican Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e. It now contains all the profiles on singers that Balliett has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Alongside original chapters on such great vocalists as Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Joe Tur\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592001568919,"sku":"9781578068357","price":3463.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781578068357.webp?v=1774975627","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/american-singers-27-portraits-in-song-9781578068357","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}