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  • Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009. Gary Giddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author.
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  • Gary Giddins won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz in 1998.
  • Nearly 25 years ago, critic Martin Williams called Gary Giddins "probably the most impressive journalist ever to have written about music."
  • When it comes to talking about jazz in general and Ellington in particular, you just can't beat Gary Giddins.
  • 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...
  • "Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books" (2006) - A collection of Giddins' writings on various topics, not limited to jazz.
  • The world of jazz criticism is enriched every time Gary Giddins brings out a new book, and Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century, bulges with riches.
  • Gary Giddins has 39 books on Goodreads with 9027 ratings. Gary Giddins’s most popular book is Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper.