Overview :Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award, Gary Giddins has also... Read More
Overview :In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America s unique music with intellectual b... Read More
Overview :Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of vir... Read More
Overview :In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era o... Read More
Overview :In Faces in the Crowd Gary Giddins explores the achievements of thirty-seven artists, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holida... Read More
Overview :Within days of Charlie "Bird" Parker's death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bir... Read More
Overview :Gary Giddins, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, has a following that includes not only jazz enthusiasts but also pop mu... Read More
Overview :Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book... Read More
Overview :"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biograph... Read More
Overview :Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz mu... Read More
Overview :In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide a... Read More