Gary Giddins

About

Gary Giddins is a native New Yorker who has been a Village Voice staff writer since 1973. He says he has no ties to the South “except I love Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and American music.” In August, Oxford University Press will publish Mr. Giddins’s Visions of Jazz: The First Century (from which his OA piece is extracted), and Da Capo Press has just issued Satchmo, his biography on Louis Armstrong, in paperback.
(Summer Issue, 1998)