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Razaf is a most interesting subject. The son of a Madagascar prince and the daughter of the American ambassador to that country, he became not only the top black lyricist but one of the top lyricists of his time and moved in both the black and white show business worlds. The author brings to life not only the subject and his times but his contemporaries, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Willie “The Lion” Smith, and producer Lew Leslie. There are photographs, a list of Razaf’s songs, a discography, and an index complete with song titles. Barry Singer is the proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers in New York City and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.
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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.
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