Gary Giddins

Giddins speaking at an American Library Association conference in Chicago, 2009. Gary Giddins (born 1948) is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973;

For five years, Giddins was the executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 2014: Bing Crosby Rediscovered – American Masters

Awards A 9th, 10th, 17th, and 37th Annual ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award Writers or Editors 1982 and 1990 Nominee for and 1986 winner of Grammy for Best Album Notes Guggenheim Fellowship 1986 1987 American Book Award for Celebrating Bird 1988 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Grinnell College ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Celebrating Bird [book], 1988. 1999 Jazz Journalists Association Excellence in Print and Book of the Year (for Visions of Jazz) Awards. Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for Visions of Jazz, 1998 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, 2002. 2002 Theatre Library Association Award for excellence in writing on film and broadcasting for Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903–1940 2001 New York Times-selected Notable Book: Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903–1940 Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903–1940 nominated one of Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 2001 The 2003 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Writer of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards