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1. Bing Crosby: Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940
by Gary Giddins
Bing Crosby reflected the aspirations and fears of America itself and reinvented himself like no star before him ever had. Published to coincide with ... More
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2. Jazz
by Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins
Jazz: Essential Listening provides all the materials students need to listen to, understand, and love jazz. Written by two master storytellers, this ... More
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3. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940
by Gary Giddins
In one of the most celebrated biographies of recent years, Giddens traces Bing Crosby's early ascent and reminds readers why Crosby dominated ... More
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4. Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
by Gary Giddins
As an essayist and Village Voice columnist, Gary Giddins is widely known as a preeminent jazz writer. Walter Clemons, writing in Newsweek, hailed him ... More
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5. Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
by Gary Giddins
A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist.-New York Times Book Review
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6. Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
by Gary Giddins
This volume brings together more than 140 essays, reviews, and articles on modern jazz from Giddins's column in the "Village Voice."
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7. Jazz: Essential Listening
by Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins
Revealing the story of jazz as it has never been told before, this volume is a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.
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8. Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
by Gary Giddins
Giddens brings together the best of his previously uncollected essays, including a few written expressly for this volume. Writing with insight, humor ... More
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9. Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop
by Gary Giddins
"The most imposing figure in jazz writing today" ("JazzTimes") on artists from Duke Ellington to Elvis Presley to Irving Berlin--all with that ... More
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10. Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
by Gary Giddins
One of America's most esteemed critics delivers a brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and ... More
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11. Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation
by Gary Giddins
"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 ... More
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12. Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80s
by Gary Giddins
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13. Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
by Gary Giddins
List of all editionsCharlie Parker was the most influential jazz musician in the country before his death in 1955. In interviews with Parker's family members and friends ... More
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14. Visions of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins
From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's intimate crooning, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the ... More
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16. Satchmo
by Gary Giddins
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong was a living symbol of 20th-century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became one of the nation's ... More
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17. Faces in the Crowd: Musicians, Writers, Actors and Filmmakers
by Gary Giddins
Thirty-seven profiles of major figures in the culture of our century.
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18. Jazz
by Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux
Revealing the story of jazz as it has never been told before, this volume is a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.
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19. The Norton Jazz Recordings: 2 Compact Discs for Use with Jazz: Essential Listening
by Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins
List of all editionsThe 2 CD set of concise recordings features 41 pieces, carefully selected from the 78 tracks of the Full Edition, in a dynamic combination of ... More
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21. The Norton Jazz Recordings: Essential Listening
by Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins
The DVD-ROM of concise recordings contains the same repertoire as the CD set, but includes Interactive Listening Guides (iLGs) which synchronize ... More
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23. Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats
by Pannonica De Koenigswarter, Gary Giddins (Foreword by), Nadine De Koenigswarter (Introduction by)
"An unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at jazz legends" In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Pannonica de Koenigswarter, known as Nica, was a constant and ... More
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24. Recording Jazz
by Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins
List of all editionsThis comprehensive 4-CD set features 75 works recorded from 1916 to the present. Carefully selected by Giddins and DeVeaux and produced by Sony with ... More
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25. Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
by Hampton Hawes, Don Asher, Gary Giddins (Introduction by)
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 ... More
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