Gary Giddins

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Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009.

Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic and author.[1] He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973;[1] his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003.[2] In 1986 Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett.[2]

For five years, Giddins was the executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[2]

Selected works[]

Books[]

  • Riding on a Blue Note (1981)
  • Rhythm-a-ning (1985)
  • Celebrating Bird (1987)
  • Satchmo (1988)
  • Faces in the Crowd (1992)
  • Visions of Jazz: The First Century (1998)
  • Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940 (2001)
  • Weather Bird (2004)
  • Natural Selection (2006)
  • Jazz (2009)
  • Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema (2010)
  • Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star - The War Years, 1940-1946 (2018)

Films[]

  • 1987 Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
  • 1990 Masters of American Music: Satchmo - Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo
  • 2000 Contributor of interviews throughout the 10 part PBS series, Jazz by Ken Burns.
  • 2014 Bing Crosby Rediscovered – American Masters

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott. "Gary Giddins". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Giddens, Gary. "Gary Giddens". Gary Giddens. Retrieved 2020-05-08.

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