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American director and writer
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Male
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Birth:
21 March 1948(Brooklyn, USA)
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Education:
Grinnell College
The details
Biography
Introduction
Gary Giddins (born March 21, 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 Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett.
He is the Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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