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Weather Bird – Jazz At The Dawn Of Its Second Century (hardcover)

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Book (Item 604897) Oxford University Press, 2004 — Condition: New Copy

A massive jazz book by Gary Giddins – author of the much respected Visions Of Jazz – and featuring more 140+ articles from a nearly 15 year period! Many of the articles here are from Giddins' Weather Bird column in The Village Voice – with pieces on Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Cassandra Wilson., Benny Carter, Lee Konitz, Rosemary Clooney, Herb Jeffries, Roy Hargrove, Marc Ribot, Terence Blanchard, David S Ware, The Bad Plus, Abbey Lincoln and many more. Hardcover, 632 pages.  © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc.



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