Results for "Gary Giddins"

Gary Giddins

Born: March 21, 1948

Julius Hemphill: Marty Ehrlich and Tim Berne Remember a Musical Visionary

by Dave Kaufman
September 20, 2026

Julius Hemphill, a brilliant alto saxophonist and extraordinary composer, was a towering figure in avant-garde jazz and creative music. Yet his body of work remains surprisingly little known, even among aficionados of this sort of adventurous music. Hemphill's music demonstrated a deep feeling for the blues and other African American traditions. His creative vision extended well ...

Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music

by Chuck Lenatti
June 1, 2025

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco during a year-long festival of Grace. At first, Duke demurred. In his autobiography, Music Is My Mistress (Da Capo, 1976), Ellington ...

In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

by Jack Kenny
October 2, 2024

In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil TaylorPhilip Freeman 344 Pages ISBN: # ISBN 978-3-9553-261-9 Wolke Verlag 2024 The sign over the nightclub says it all: Cecil Taylor starts where Thelonious Monk leaves off. Jazz has never really come to terms with Cecil Taylor. Comparisons with ...

Reed Rapture In Brooklyn

by Hrayr Attarian
May 30, 2023

Ivo PerelmanReed Rapture in Brooklyn Mahakala 2023 Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman is a restless innovator with a prolific output. Recorded in 2021, his magnum opus, the 12-disc box set Reed Rapture in Brooklyn (Mahakala, 2022), is a set of improvised duets with a dozen masters of the woodwinds. Versatile and award-winning ...

The Record Store Owner: Jim Eigo

by B.D. Lenz
April 3, 2023

The last couple decades have brought a revolution in every aspect of the music-making process. Technology has transformed the creation of music, the promotion of music, and of course the distribution of music. At the very end of this delivery pipeline there has been a variety of formats that includes bulky vinyl records and clunky CDs, ...

The Arrival of Joe Henderson (1963 - 1967)

by Russell Perry
March 10, 2020

Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is ..."an irresistibly lucid player, whose adroitness in conjuring stark and swirling riffs contributed immeasurably to two of the most durable jazz hits of the '60s, Horace Silver's 'Song for My Father' and Lee Morgan's 'The ...

Bing & Louis: A Pocketful Of Dreams With Gary Giddins, This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 8, 2014

Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong struck up a friendship in the 1920s that flourished as they worked together—for almost half a century—on stage, in movies, and on radio and TV. This week on Riverwalkl Jazz, Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 shares a look into the friendship between Bing ...

Artie Shaw: Portrait Of Perfection This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 14, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum and the Band pay tribute to Artie Shaw, the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." By the time he was 30, Shaw’s effortless clarinet solos, his innovative musical arrangements, and his unusual band instrumentation earned him a place in the pantheon ...

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Tango, Opera And The Blues: Jelly Roll’s Recipe For Jazz

May 25, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes singer Vernel Bagneris and the piano duo of Dick Hyman and John Sheridan for a concert of Jelly Morton’s music, and a discussion of key elements in his compositions. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...