Gary Giddins

Gary Giddins ( born March 21, 1948 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz writer, jazz critic, film critic and journalist.

Giddins grew up in Long Iceland and studied at Grinnell College in Iowa ( completion 1970). From 1971 he was a freelance writer and from 1973 at the New Yorker magazine Village Voice. His first jazz reviews he wrote through mediation by Dan Morgenstern. He wrote primarily known as a longstanding columnist from 1974 to December 2003 by the Village Voice, where he had the Column Weather Bird and especially about music (jazz ), movies, and book reviews. He also wrote, inter alia, for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, The Nation and currently (2007) for Jazz Times and The New York Sun ( on film). He wrote biographies of Louis Armstrong ( Satchmo ) and Charlie Parker, which he also made ​​films in each case. He also wrote a successful biography of Bing Crosby, among other things, Ralph J. Gleason Music Book the award won.

Giddins won the 1998 National Books Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz and so far six ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards of as a music critic. Three times he was nominated for a Grammy Award, which he won in 1987 for the liner notes to Frank Sinatra - The Voice. In 2003 he received an award for his life's work by the Jazz Journalists Association. He was a guest lecturer at several universities (including Columbia University) and Guggenheim Fellow.

1986 to 1993 he organized concerts with John Lewis of American Jazz Orchestra, among others with musicians such as Benny Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett and David Murray. He also produced, among others concerts for the JVC Jazz Festival in New York.

Writings

  • Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop. Oxford University Press, New York 1981. Diane Pub 2000, ISBN 0756766710th ( collection of his Village Voice contributions, essays, columns, interviews)
  • Rhythm -a- ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation. Oxford University Press, New York 1985. Da Capo 2000, ISBN 0306809877th ( collection of essays among other things, Ornette Coleman, the Marsalis brothers, Monk, David Murray )
  • Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker. William Morrow, New York 1987. Da Capo 1999, ISBN 0306808927th
  • Satchmo - The Genius of Louis Armstrong. Doubleday, New York, 1988, Da Capo 2001, ISBN 0,306,810,131th
  • Faces in the Crowd: Musicians, Actors, Writers and Filmmakers. Oxford University Press, New York 1992. Da Capo 2000, ISBN 030680705X. ( Portr # ts of jazz musicians, jazz critic Martin Williams, Gunther Schuller, Whitney Balliett, essays on film )
  • Visions of Jazz: The First Century. Oxford University Press, New York 1998, ISBN 0195132416th (70 portraits of musicians )
  • Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903-1940. Little Brown, 2001. Back Bay Books, ISBN 0316886459th
  • Weather Bird: Jazz on the Dawn of its Second Century. 2004, ISBN 0,195,304,497th ( essay and reviews collection 1990-2003 )
  • Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music and Books. Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 019517951X. ( Essays )

Movies

  • Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker, 1987, for PBS
  • Masters of American Music: Satchmo - Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo 2000 for PBS
  • Author of John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen, PBS
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