Riding on a Blue Note - Jazz and American Pop

Informationen zum Autor Gary Giddins wrote the Weather Bird jazz column in the Village Voice for over 30 years and later directed the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received the National Nook Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998 . His other books include Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years, 1930-1940 , which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; Warning Shadow ; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting. He lives in New York, NY. Klappentext "The most imposing figure in jazz writing today" ("JazzTimes") on artists from Duke Ellington to Elvis Presley to Irving Berlin--all with that pervasive "blue note" of jazz in common. Zusammenfassung "The most imposing figure in jazz writing today" (JazzTimes) on artists from Duke Ellington to Elvis Presley to Irving Berlin--all with that pervasive "blue note" of jazz in common.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Giddins, Giddins Gary
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.1999
• EAN: 9780306809248
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80924-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, United States of America, USA, Pop Music, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music