Ted Gioia

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Ted Gioia is a noted jazz critic and music historian, best known for his book The History of Jazz. He is also a jazz musician and one of the founders of Stanford University's jazz studies program. He is the author of several other books on music, including West Coast Jazz (1992), Healing Songs (2006) and Work Songs (2006). His first book, The Imperfect Art (1988) was awarded the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award. In 2006, Gioia was the first to expose, in an article in the Los Angeles Times, the FBI files on folk and roots music icon Alan Lomax. He is currently involved in the launch of www.jazz.com, a music portal, and writing a book on the Delta blues.

Gioia is a jazz pianist and composer whose recordings include The End of the Open Road'' (1988), Tango Cool (1990) and The City is a Chinese Vase (1998). He has also produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Buddy Montgomery and others.

Gioia holds degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University, and is the owner of one of the largest collections of research materials on jazz and ethnic music in the Western United States.

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  • Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Spanish translation (Historia del Jazz) published in 2002 by Fondo de Cultura Económica.
  • Gioia, Ted. West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Revised edition published by University of California Press, 1998.
  • Gioia, Ted. The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). Portable Stanford edition published in 1988.
  • Gioia, Ted. Work Songs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
  • Gioia, Ted. Healing Songs. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
  • Gioia, Ted. “The Red Rumor Blues: Newly Released Files Reveal A Long-Running FBI Probe Into Music Chronicler Alan Lomax,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2006.
  • Haven, Cynthia. "Changing His Tune: A Jazz Expert Turns to Simpler Songs" -- an interview with Ted Gioia (Stanford Magazine, March / April 2007) [1]
  • Sohmer, Jack. Review of Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz (Jazz Notes, 1999)[2]
  • Yardley, Jonathan. "All the Right Notes." The Washington Post (Sunday, November 30, 1997; Page X03) [3]

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