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Gary Giddins 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]

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

References

External links

• Gary Giddins at IMDb
• GaryGiddins.com (official website)

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