Faces In The Crowd Musicians, Writers, Actors And Filmmakers

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Gary Giddins
Da Capo Press, 1996 (first published in 1992)
Paperback. 288pp
£13.50

Widely known as a pre-eminent jazz writer, Gary Giddins is also famous for his reflections on popular culture, books, and movies - including a piece on Jack Benny that Gay Talese selected for Best American Essays of 1987. This book compiles the best of his essays into a potent reader, collecting his most provocative writing, and ranging from reflection to interview to close critical analysis.

Here Giddins explores the achievements of thirty-seven artists: show people, divas, musicians and writers, from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Miles Davis, Katherine Ann Porter to Phillip Roth. In this collection, he shows why he has become one of the most influential critics of his generation.

GARY GIDDINS is a columnist for the Village Voice and winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for Visions of Jazz. He is also the author of Riding on a Blue Note, Rhythm-A-Ning, Celebrating Bird, and Satchmo. His work has won numerous prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peabody Broadcasting Award, an American Book Award, and five ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards.

"Giddins has mastered the critic's most difficult trick - being appreciative and analytical at the same time." - LOS ANGELES TIMES

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