Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009.
Gary Giddins (born 1948) 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]
^ abYanow, Scott. "Gary Giddins". AllMusic. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
^ abcGiddens, Gary (November 27, 2012). "Gary Giddens". Gary Giddens. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
GaryGiddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; his "Weather Bird" column ended in 2003. In 1986...
most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic GaryGiddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has]...
1978. Giddins, Gary, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903-1940, (NY: Little and Brown, 2009), p. 67, ISBN 0316091561 GaryGiddins, Bing...
business. Crosby's biographer, GaryGiddins, describes Dixie Lee as a shy, private person with a sensible approach to life. Giddins recounts that Dixie and Bing...
crooner Ray Price dies at 87". Retrieved 6 September 2014. Further reading GaryGiddins, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903–1940. Boston:...
Terry (2009). Pops. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 30. Giddins (2001), pp. 22–23 Giddins (2001), p. 26. "Jazz Neighborhoods – New Orleans Jazz National...
chapter devoted to Vaughan in his book Visions of Jazz (2000), critic GaryGiddins described her as the "ageless voice of modern jazz – of giddy postwar...
Zirpolo, p. 55. Chilton, p. 10. Chilton, pp. 11–12. Giddins, p. 69. Chilton, p. 14. Giddins, p. 70. Giddins, p. 71. Quoted in Chilton, p. 1. Eldridge, quoted...
Schuller (1991) and GaryGiddins (2004) have defended Miller from criticism. In an article written for The New Yorker magazine in 2004, Giddins said these critics...
Collins "stripped everything down to its essential simplicity" Miles Davis GaryGiddins "a born hedgehog who believes in being a fox" Wendy's Tom Gara "it doubled...
1981: "New Fields Still to Conquer"; Interview with Les Tomkins. 1981: GaryGiddins, "The Whiteness of the Wail", in Riding on a Blue Note. New York: Oxford...
what makes The Honeymoon Killers such an enduring one-off. It works, as GaryGiddins argues in the liner notes of the restored DVD edition, 'as the perfect...
(1937)". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved May 7, 2010. Giddins, Gary (2010). GaryGiddins on Leo McCarey's 'Make Way for Tomorrow' (DVD). The Criterion...
Retrieved July 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Giddins, Gary (2006). Natural Selection: GaryGiddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books. Oxford: Oxford...
instructor and mentor. There is also a booklet featuring an essay by critic GaryGiddins, notes about the film and two short stories introducing its characters...
member of singer Cab Calloway's big band. According to music critic GaryGiddins, musicians called him "Chu" either because he chewed on the mouthpiece...
jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, writer GaryGiddins said that Dorham's name has become "virtually synonymous with 'underrated'...
Web-Posting Friends". United States Library of Congress. Scott Deveaux and GaryGiddins (2015). Jazz. W. W. Norton & Company; Second edition (February 1, 2015)...
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