Gary Giddins has been called the "John Updike of jazz criticism." (Ken Tucker) Faces in the Crowds is a powerful collection of his finest writing from the last fifteen years, full of critiques, assessments, and profiles of major cultural figures of our century. Ranging from fond reflection to close, critical analysis, Giddins explores the importance of thirty-seven artists, including Irving Berlin, Spike Lee, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Philip Roth, Elias Canetti, Jack Benny, James M. Cain, Clint Eastwood, and many ...
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Gary Giddins has been called the "John Updike of jazz criticism." (Ken Tucker) Faces in the Crowds is a powerful collection of his finest writing from the last fifteen years, full of critiques, assessments, and profiles of major cultural figures of our century. Ranging from fond reflection to close, critical analysis, Giddins explores the importance of thirty-seven artists, including Irving Berlin, Spike Lee, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Philip Roth, Elias Canetti, Jack Benny, James M. Cain, Clint Eastwood, and many more. Through every essay, his observations are sharp, his reactions honest, his judgments right on target. He shows, for example, how Jack Benny revolutionized comedy, takes a look at the great Dinah Washington, chats with Clint Eastwood about Charlie Parker, provides a new perspective on Benny Goodman, and offers a musicological study of two Dizzy Gillespie solos written forty years apart. A provocative and immensely entertaining collection, Faces in the Crowd shows why Gary Giddins has become one of the most influential critics of his generation.
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Add this copy of Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Very Good + Very Good + DJ. Printing Not Spec. n/a. 8vo = over 9" 278pp. Players and writers. "Ranging from fond reflection to interview-and-commentary to close critical analysis, Giddins expolores the achievements of thirty-seven artits."
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Near Fine. Near Fine Dj. 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall 1st printing with number 1 in the line on the title page. Also theres is an official Oxford University card laid-in from a publicist at Oxford University press noting in red ink on her busines card: "At the Author's Request"-a real-life sort of presentation copy. Looks about fine but has a tiny bump to jacket and book bottom conrere-hard to see even when one knows its there.
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