• 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.
  • We kick the series off with a conversation with the great jazz writer, Gary Giddins about American composer, pianist and band leader, Edward Kennedy Duke...
  • In honor of his participation in our release of Louis Malle’s jazzy noir classic Elevator to the Gallows, we invited music critic Gary Giddins to contribute a list of his ten...
  • Gary Giddins is the author of 12 books, including Rhythm-a-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation (1985), Visions of Jazz: The First Century (1998), Weather Bird...
  • Gary Giddins won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz in 1998.
  • Read more about Gary Giddins GRAMMY History and other GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated artists on GRAMMY.com.
  • Nearly 25 years ago, critic Martin Williams called Gary Giddins "probably the most impressive journalist ever to have written about music."
  • First up, Gary Giddins, winner of the 1998 NBCC award in Criticism for his book Visions of Jazz, who wrote, “Only one?
  • by Gary Giddins Cover of edition rhythmaningjazzt00giddi First published in 1985 — 3 editions.