Listening Session: Gary Giddins Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 12 pm

Listening Session: Gary Giddins

Fri, Apr 22, 2016
12 pm

A lone figure stands in the empty fifth floor galleries of the Whitney Museum lit at night
A lone figure stands in the empty fifth floor galleries of the Whitney Museum lit at night

Whitney Museum of American Art, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries, Floor Five. Photograph by Timothy Schenck

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Floor Five, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries

Gary Giddins, a leading jazz critic and former columnist for the Village Voice, hosts a listening session as part of Open Plan: Cecil Taylor. Giddins is the Executive Director of The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. His writings on Cecil Taylor have been published in numerous articles, reviews and books including Riding on a Blue Note (1981) and Visions of Jazz (1998) which have become indispensable texts on American jazz history.

Free with Museum admission.


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