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“gary giddins”

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  • Celebrating Bird

    The Triumph of Charlie Parker

    by Gary Giddins ...
    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: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Visions of Jazz : The First Century

    The First Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Warning Shadows

    Home Alone with Classic Cinema

    by Gary Giddins ...
    A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics.In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Bing Crosby

    A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

    by Gary Giddins ...
    From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Weather Bird

    Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Bing Crosby

    Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940–1946

    by Gary Giddins ...
    "This is, quite simply, the best-researched, best-written, most entertaining music biography I've read." ― MojoBing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War, he was a desperate nation's most beloved entertainer. But he was more than just a charismatic crooner: Bing Crosby redefined ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After the Fireworks

    Three Novellas

    by Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins ...
    "After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” —Gary GiddinsAfter the Fireworks is a collection of three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, with a foreword by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gary Giddins - now available as an Olive Edition.In the title novella, Rome is the stunning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Murray Talks Music

    Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues

    by Albert Murray, Greg Thomas ...
    The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Visions of Jazz

    The First Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Young Man with a Horn

    by Gary Giddins, Dorothy Baker ...
    Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Satchmo

    The Genius of Louis Armstrong

    by Gary Giddins ...
    "Elegant and affecting . . .A perceptive biography of Louis Armstrong and a sensitive appreciation of his music" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World )."A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist." — New York Times Book ReviewLouis "Satchmo" Armstrong has been called the most influential musician of the twentieth century: His magnificent career as a trum... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Weather Bird

    Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon ... Read more

    $18.09 USD