Cary Ginell

Cary Ginell is a veteran radio broadcaster, folklorist, and author of fourteen books on American music. Cary has annotated dozens of albums for labels such as Naxos, Living Era, Texas Rose, Rambler, Bear Family, Rhino, Revenant, and Origin Jazz Library. He has been honored seven times by the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) with awards for "Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research" for his books, "Milton Brown & the Founding of Western Swing" (University of Illinois Press, 1994), "Discography of Western Swing & Hot String Bands" (Greenwood Press, 2001), "Good Vibes" (Scarecrow Press, 2003) (an autobiography of jazz musician Terry Gibbs), "Old Shep: The Recordings of Red Foley" (Bear Family Records), "Hot Jazz for Sale: Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop, "The Herbie Mann Picto-Discography (Lulu.com), and "The Columbia 15000-D Series Discography (1924-33)." The Gibbs biography also won the prestigious ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music journalism in December 2004. Cary was also the associate producer and annotator for the Grammy-nominated anthology "Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom - 1950-1970" (Rhino Records, 2001). A longtime supporter of public radio, Cary produced specials for NPR's "Jazz Profiles" on Terry Gibbs and flutist Herbie Mann. His next book will be "Carefully Taught: American History Through Broadway Musicals," available in early 2022. Cary works as a theatre and concert reviewer for The Acorn Newspapers, writes his own blog on theater arts (VC On Stage), teaches courses as an adjunct professor at Cal Lutheran University and Road Scholar, and conducts tours of Dodger Stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cary holds a master's degree in Folklore from UCLA.