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“... hospital: filthy suit, shirt awry, trousers ridden up to his mottled knees. In Celebrating Bird, Gary Giddins includes three photos I’d never seen before, taken just before Parker’s death. (Frustratingly, Giddins supplies no background context.) In one, Parker turns his back to the camera and covers his eyes, as ...”

“... a lil’ moonlight can doo – ooo-ooo.’ ‘Her voice is her story,’ the jazz critic Gary Giddins said of Holiday’s melancholy majesty. Wary and solitary in life (‘I don’t make friends easily’), on stage she was unabashed about opening her haunted heart. ‘Good morning heartache/Here we go again,’ she sang, in her come-hither ...”

“... his introduction to the 1994 paperback reissue of Straight Life, the jazz critic Gary Giddins warns that it is often hard to admire Pepper: ‘he whines, justifies, patronises and vilifies’ and goes ‘overboard . . . with intimate revelations’.) But along with the spleen and pussy lore Pepper offered himself up with such astonishing ...”