Bing Crosby -- "the first hip white person born in the United States"? That's what Artie Shaw called him in 1992, but if not for a new biography by jazz writer Gary Giddins, chances are we never would ...

Gary Crosby OBE is a leading jazz double bassist, music arranger and educator in the UK. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Tomorrow’s Warriors. A founder member of the original Jazz Warriors, ...

Crosby set the mold for the multimedia star: on radio, on the big screen and on record. The 1940s was the period when his star shone brightest and... New Biography Chronicles Bing Crosby's Most ...

What: Gary Giddins celebrates the release of “Bing Crosby: Swinging On a Star - The War Years 1940-1946” with two events in Spokane 2 p.m. Thursday: The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. 7 p.m.

As a biographer, top jazz critic Gary Giddins seems to have created his own niche: rescuing musical giants from their own iconic status. Giddins' 1988 biography Satchmo: The Genius Of Louis Armstrong ...

Tomorrow’s Warriors has announced that the charity’s co-founder and artistic director Dr Gary Crosby OBE will be celebrating his 70th birthday and over 50 years in jazz with a series of events ...

The box sits in the corner of my record case, unopened for at least three decades. A collector once offered me $500 for it. The songs on the 10 records in the case — “Pennies From Heaven,” “Sweet ...

Portrait of Bing Crosby circa 1945. Swinging on a Star, written by jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, is out now. Crosby was a singer first and foremost; his appeal started with his voice. "He had ...