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In his follow-up to 1998’s award-winning Visions of Jazz: The First Century Gary Giddins has collected 140 essays written over a 14-year period. His wide-ranging interests and expertise offer a thorough glimpse of jazz on the cusp of the century. The subject matter covers legendary artists such as Louis Armstrong and the MJQ, contemporary musicians such as D. D. Jackson and Ravi Coltrane, outstanding recordings, musical styles from Dixieland to the avant garde, and a series of articles on the annual JVC Festival. He concludes with a thought provoking essay entitled “How Come Jazz Isn’t Dead?”
Gary Giddins has covered jazz for the Village Voice for 30 years. He has produced documentary films, contributed commentary to Ken Burns’ Jazz, and won a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, two Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards, five ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards, a Peabody, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.He is the author of Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop, Rhythm-a-ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker, Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, and Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of over 140 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports the research or
recreational study of the jazz standards.
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