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Gary Giddins

Gary Giddins appears in the following:

Vanished Venues: The Village Gate

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Our series on concert halls and nightclubs from New York music history continues with a look at one of the city's great jazz temples: The Village Gate. We’ll talk with jazz historian and author Gary Giddins.

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America's Quintessential Music

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Born from the meeting of ragtime and blues, jazz journeyed to Chicago, New York and beyond. Along the way, the music became as complex as America itself. Music critic and scholar Gary Giddins, co-author of the new book Jazz, explains how he tackled that epic history.

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Inside Jazz and Jack Kerouac

Thursday, October 29, 2009

The history of jazz has been told in films like Bird and in Ken Burns' TV documentary. Today: music critic Gary Giddins talks about the new 700-page book he co-authored. Later: jazz music inspired writer Jack Kerouac. Indie rockers Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar perform songs from their soundtrack for ...