. . . . . . . "The meat of this essential handbook to and survey of the jazz vocal art consists of its chapter-length appreciations of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, and other luminaries, along with chapters that bring together in each case several singers of, for example, the big band, Kansas City, scat," . . . .