Gary, a critic and biographer and the author of several books on jazz, welcomes you to his site. Here you’ll learn more about the man who’s won an unparalleled six Ascap–Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in…
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…
Gary Giddins—recipient of the 2025 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy—has been one of the leading critics in the field of jazz for more than 50 years, having written highly acclaimed books as well as essays for the New…
Gary Giddins is a critic and biographer who has written about jazz and film in such books as Visions of Jazz: The First Century; Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong; Celebrating Bird…
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa. In 1973, he joined the Village Voice, and a year later introduced his column “Weather Bird,” which he ended in 2003, closing a 30-year run during which he received…
Arguably the most significant musician in the country at the time of his death, Parker set the standard many musicians strove to reach-though he never enjoyed the same popular success that greeted many of his imitators.
Mezi Millerovy nejznámější nahrávky patří jazzové standardy In the Mood, Tuxedo Junction, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Měsíční serenáda, Little Brown Jug, American Patrol, Elmer's Tune, A String Of Pearls a Pennsylvania 6–5000. [1 ] Jeho letoun…