- Welcome to the Official Gary Giddins Website. Gary, a critic and biographer and the author of several books on jazz, welcomes you to his site.
- Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009. Gary Giddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author.
- Gary Giddins. 1,103 likes · 2 talking about this. Award-winning author, critic, essayist, producer, educator.
- Gary Giddins won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz in 1998. He has written books on Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker.
- Gary Giddins: Well, fortunately one of Ellington's talents, especially in the 1930s and I'd say into the middle ‘40s was for writing popular tunes.
- Nearly 25 years ago, critic Martin Williams called Gary Giddins "probably the most impressive journalist ever to have written about music."
- "Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books" (2006) - A collection of Giddins' writings on various topics, not limited to jazz.
- 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...
- One of the top jazz writers of his generation, Gary Giddins is best-known for his longtime work with the Village Voice which he joined in 1973.
- If stopping the clock is what gives them pleasure, fine, but I don’t think that’s good for the art, and it certainly has no appeal to me.” – Gary Giddins.
