Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by Gary Giddins (English) P

Description: Weather Bird by Gary Giddins Paperback edition of the anthology of jazz criticism of Prominent jazz critic Gary Giddins from 1990 to 2003. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Gary Giddinss 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, todays topmuscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazzs 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 Isnt Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum. A radiant compendium by Americas leading music critic, WeatherBird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene. Notes A fascinating companion volume to the award-winning Visions Of Jazz, with over 140 pieces written on leading figures. Author Biography Gary Giddins wrote the Village Voices "Weather Bird" column for 30 years. His eight books and three documentary films have garnered unparalleled recognition for jazz, including a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, two Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards, five ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Peabody, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received national attention for his commentary in Ken Burnss Jazz. He lives in New YorkCity. Review "Giddins has been recognized as the Duke, the Count, the Earl of jazz writers.... No one puts it together like Giddins, whose writing is an unmatched combination of big ideas, witty wordsmithery, historical insight, and musicological know-how.... Thumbing through Weather Bird is like listening to some of your old favorites--and being astonished as you still hear new things.... Giddins has set the bar for jazz scholarship so high no one is likely to top it....His jazz column was a thing to be treasured--as is this collection."--Will Friedwald, New York Sun"The breadth and depth of Giddinss knowledge is extremely impressive, his ear is astounding, and his masterly style routinely achieves the near impossible in writing engagingly about something that inherently eludes description.... The book stands on its own, but taken with Giddinss acclaimed Visions of Jazz: The First Century, it affords the reader a highly accessible, personal, and perceptive portrait of the development of jazz and its toweringfigures (and some lesser-known but significant talents), from its beginnings to the present."--Library Journal"There is an indescribable joy in finding writers who not only know how to cleverly turn a phrase, but who truly understand how to imbue their writing with personality, life and a personal perspective that makes a reader want to keep coming back for more. Jazz writer Gary Giddins is such writer.... From Louis Armstrong to The Bad Plus, from Dave Holland to Dave Douglas, from Sonny Rollins to David S. Ware and Charlie Christian to Charles Mingus, WeatherBird is about as comprehensive a critical look at jazz as one can find in 600 pages."--John Kelman, allaboutjazz.com"A hefty but absorbing collection of the ex-Village Voice critics recent jazz criticism. As a dilettante jazz listener, I learned something from every paragraph."--Alex Ross, therestisnoise.com"Giddins has probably become the standard by which all other jazz writers and critics have to be judged.... The second volume of Giddins extraordinary work confirms fully that he was probably the greatest regularly appearing working critic of the music in its history."--The Buffalo News"Giddins is opinionated but generous, with the laudable ability to capture the essence of a performers style in vibrant language that makes the music described seem almost audible."--Publishers Weekly"When it comes to selling the music he loves, hes a gifted evangelist. Thats no small thing."--JazzTimes"Giddins has a voice. Its full of bold assertions and blunt putdowns. He loves the music to death--that feeling oozes through these 600-plus pages, though Giddins balances emotion with intellect, as does jazz itself. Hes a scholarly fanatic, obsessing on the music endlessly, at times comically, fusing a school kids ebullience to dissertation-like detail. He seems to work as hard at understanding the music as musicians do at mastering jazzs labyrinthinesystems."--San Jose Mercury News"Giddins insights are so compelling and his writing so crisp that matters like past, present and future become moot.... Like so many of the virtuosos he writes about, Giddins has an explosive way of expressing ideas, sometimes complex ones."--David Rubien, San Francisco Chronicle"Giddins can be read for the sheer pleasure of watching him surround music with language. Hes passionate and erudite, a marvelous historian, and always a splendid companion -- an essayist in the disguise of a critic." --Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn"Gary Giddins is probably the best, most acute, most sheerly explanatory critic of jazz music ever born. These generous, thoughtful essays from the Village Voice and elsewhere resound with the sense of discoveries made during the act of writing." --Peter Straub"Anyone interested in the artistry and importance of jazz should read this book. Anyone interested in the history of our culture should read this book. Gary Giddins eloquently deciphers the mysteries of jazz in Weather Bird. I was enterained by every page. I learned something and was inspired by every page." --Michael Connelly Promotional A fascinating companion volume to the award-winning Visions of Jazz Prizes Winner of One of San Jose Mercury News Top Non-Fiction Books of 2004. Long Description Gary Giddinss 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, todays topmuscicians, the best records of the year, and on leading figures from jazzs 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 annualJVC 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 Isnt Dead?" which advances a theory about the way art is born, exploited, celebrated, and sidelined to the museum. A radiant compendium by Americas leading music critic, Weather Bird offers an unforgettable look at the modern jazz scene. Review Text "Giddins has been recognized as the Duke, the Count, the Earl of jazz writers.... No one puts it together like Giddins, whose writing is an unmatched combination of big ideas, witty wordsmithery, historical insight, and musicological know-how.... Thumbing through Weather Bird is like listening to some of your old favorites--and being astonished as you still hear new things.... Giddins has set the bar for jazz scholarship so high no one is likely to top it....His jazz column was a thing to be treasured--as is this collection."--Will Friedwald, New York Sun"The breadth and depth of Giddinss knowledge is extremely impressive, his ear is astounding, and his masterly style routinely achieves the near impossible in writing engagingly about something that inherently eludes description.... The book stands on its own, but taken with Giddinss acclaimed Visions of Jazz: The First Century, it affords the reader a highly accessible, personal, and perceptive portrait of the development of jazz and its toweringfigures (and some lesser-known but significant talents), from its beginnings to the present."--Library Journal"There is an indescribable joy in finding writers who not only know how to cleverly turn a phrase, but who truly understand how to imbue their writing with personality, life and a personal perspective that makes a reader want to keep coming back for more. Jazz writer Gary Giddins is such writer.... From Louis Armstrong to The Bad Plus, from Dave Holland to Dave Douglas, from Sonny Rollins to David S. Ware and Charlie Christian to Charles Mingus, WeatherBird is about as comprehensive a critical look at jazz as one can find in 600 pages."--John Kelman, allaboutjazz.com"A hefty but absorbing collection of the ex-Village Voice critics recent jazz criticism. As a dilettante jazz listener, I learned something from every paragraph."--Alex Ross, therestisnoise.com"Giddins has probably become the standard by which all other jazz writers and critics have to be judged.... The second volume of Giddins extraordinary work confirms fully that he was probably the greatest regularly appearing working critic of the music in its history."--The Buffalo News"Giddins is opinionated but generous, with the laudable ability to capture the essence of a performers style in vibrant language that makes the music described seem almost audible."--Publishers Weekly"When it comes to selling the music he loves, hes a gifted evangelist. Thats no small thing."--JazzTimes"Giddins has a voice. Its full of bold assertions and blunt putdowns. He loves the music to death--that feeling oozes through these 600-plus pages, though Giddins balances emotion with intellect, as does jazz itself. Hes a scholarly fanatic, obsessing on the music endlessly, at times comically, fusing a school kids ebullience to dissertation-like detail. He seems to work as hard at understanding the music as musicians do at mastering jazzs labyrinthinesystems."--San Jose Mercury News"Giddins insights are so compelling and his writing so crisp that matters like past, present and future become moot.... Like so many of the virtuosos he writes about, Giddins has an explosive way of expressing ideas, sometimes complex ones."--David Rubien, San Francisco Chronicle"Giddins can be read for the sheer pleasure of watching him surround music with language. Hes passionate and erudite, a marvelous historian, and always a splendid companion -- an essayist in the disguise of a critic." --Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn"Gary Giddins is probably the best, most acute, most sheerly explanatory critic of jazz music ever born. These generous, thoughtful essays from the Village Voice and elsewhere resound with the sense of discoveries made during the act of writing." --Peter Straub"Anyone interested in the artistry and importance of jazz should read this book. Anyone interested in the history of our culture should read this book. Gary Giddins eloquently deciphers the mysteries of jazz in Weather Bird. I was enterained by every page. I learned something and was inspired by every page." --Michael Connelly Review Quote "When it comes to selling the music he loves, hes a gifted evangelist.Thats no small thing."--JazzTimes Feature A fascinating companion volume to the award-winning Visions of Jazz Details ISBN0195304497 Author Gary Giddins Short Title WEATHER BIRD Language English ISBN-10 0195304497 ISBN-13 9780195304497 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 781.65 Year 2006 Residence New York City, NY, US Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195304497 UK Release Date 2006-06-29 AU Release Date 2006-06-29 NZ Release Date 2006-06-29 US Release Date 2006-06-29 Edited by Noel J. 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