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Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Contributor(s): Giddins, Gary (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195304497     ISBN-13: 9780195304497
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $25.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2006
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Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Jazz
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 781.65
Physical Information: 1.52" H x 6.08" W x 8.86" L (1.88 lbs) 656 pages
Features: Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher 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.
 
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