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Scholar and author Philip Furia drew upon the private papers and unpublished autobiography of Johnny Mercer as well as exhaustive interviews with his family, friends and colleagues to uncover the lyricist’s complex personality, including its dark side. Mercer is credited with writing the words to more jazz standards than any other lyricist. At the peak of his career he had a song in the Top Ten every week of the year. Skylark is the Mercer biography to read. It discusses the lyricist’s life and times and contains an analysis of his lyrics by the author. The Index includes people, songs, and shows. There is also a list of books and essays on Mercer.
Philip Furia is the author of Irving Berlin: A Life in Song, Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, and The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists. He is also Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore
provides you with a catalog of over 120 books associated
with the jazz standards. Organized by category,
each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in
your research and guide you in your recreational
reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com
are listed at the right and the listing may be considered
the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always
the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated
indicating the book's relevance to the subject.
If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports
the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.
suggestions@jazzStandards.com
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