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Young Man with a Horn
Av Dorothy Baker, Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2012
215 kr
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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 …
Visions of Jazz
The First Century
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2000
473 kr
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Poised to become a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no fewer than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history.From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's intimate crooning, jazz critic Gary …
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2006
373 kr
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Gary Giddins's magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post called it "the definitive compendium by the most interesting jazz critic now at work." And Alfred Appel, Jr., in The New York Times Book Review, said it was "the …
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Av Gary Giddins
E-bok, 2004
127 kr
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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 …
Natural Selection
Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2008
361 kr
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Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards-including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award-and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of stimulating and original cultural criticism …
Visions of Jazz
The First Century
Av Gary Giddins
E-bok, 2000
182 kr
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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 …
Visions of Jazz
The First Century
Av Gary Giddins
E-bok, 1998
182 kr
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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 …
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Av Gary Giddins
E-bok, 2004
127 kr
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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 …
Faces In The Crowd
Musicians, Writers, Actors, And Filmmakers
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 1996
218 kr
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In Faces in the Crowd Gary Giddins explores the achievements of thirty-seven artists, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Elias Canetti to Philip Roth. He shows how Jack Benny revolutionized comedy assesses the hardboiled fiction of …
Riding On A Blue Note
Jazz And American Pop
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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Gary Giddins, winner of the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, has a following that includes not only jazz enthusiasts but also pop music fans of every stripe. Writing here in a lyrical and celebratory style all his own, Giddins dazzlingly shows us,among many other things,how performers …
Rhythm-a-ning
Jazz Tradition And Innovation
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd , Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise, vivid assessments of individual performers including …
Satchmo
The Genius of Louis Armstrong
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2001
201 kr
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Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" ( Esquire ). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in Satchmo, one of the most vivid and fascinating portraits ever drawn of perhaps the …
Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star
The War Years, 1940-1946
Av Gary Giddins
Inbunden, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
410 kr
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Bing 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 the very …
Jazz
Av Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux
Inbunden, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
493 kr
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In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America’s unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed fans. They explain what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the …
Warning Shadows
Home Alone with Classic Cinema
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2010
356 kr
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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 away from the crowded theater to be home …
Bing Crosby
A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903–1940
Av Gary Giddins
Ljudbok, 2005
477 kr
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From 1934 to 1954, Bing Crosby utterly dominated American entertainment. The number one movie star for five years in a row, he had more hit records than anyone in history. The rise of Bing Crosby was the rise of the American popular culture itself. In this commanding biography, eminent cultural …
Raise Up Off Me
A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
Av Don Asher, Gary Giddins m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
191 kr
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Hampton Hawes [1928–1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of the Year by downbeat magazine (1956), Hawes was already struggling with a heroin addiction that would …
Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star; The War Years, 1940–1946
Av Gary Giddins
Ljudbok, 2021
447 kr
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In this companion book to the award–winning biography Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903–1940, Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful work. Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzying era of …
Celebrating Bird
The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Av Gary Giddins
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
216 kr
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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 …
