# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-giddins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:35:16.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-giddins"
name: "Gary Giddins"
slug: "gary-giddins"
description: "Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic and author. He wrote for The Village Voice from 1973; his \"Weather Bird\" column ended in 2003. In 1986, Gary Giddins and John Lewis created the American Jazz Orchestra which presented concerts using a jazz repertory with musicians such as Tony Bennett."
tagline: "American director and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_Giddins.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump