Will Friedwald

Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The New York Stage Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and other publications. He is also the host of the Saturday morning radio show "Sing! Sing! Sing!" on San Diego's KSDS. He is the author of ten previous books including the award-winning A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Sinatra!: The Song Is You, Stardust Melodies: A Biography of 12 of America's Most Popular Songs, Tony Bennett: The Good Life, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole, and Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond. He has written over 600 sets of album liner notes, has received eleven Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and in documentaries.