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Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Book

Paperback edition of the anthology of jazz criticism of Prominent jazz critic Gary Giddins from 1990 to 2003. Gary Giddins's magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post...Read More

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    An anthology of jazz criticism of prominent jazz critic Gary Giddins from 1990 to 2003.

  • Product Description

    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 essays, reviews, and articles. Weather Bird is a celebration of jazz, with illuminating commentaryon contemporary jazz events, today's top muscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazz's past. Readers will find extended pieces on Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner, Benny Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson, Tony Bennett, and many others. Giddins includes a series of articles on the annual JVC Jazz Festival, which offers a splendid overview of jazz in the 1990s. Other highlights include an astute look at avant-garde music ("Parajazz") and his challenging essay, "How Come Jazz Isn't Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum.
    A radiant compendium by America's leading music critic, Weather Bird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene.

  • 0195304497
  • 9780195304497
  • Gary Giddins
  • 29 June 2006
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 656
  • New Ed
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