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Ted Gioia

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BIOGRAPHY

Ted Gioia is a writer, musician, and scholar. Gioia is also a jazz pianist and one of the founders of Stanford University's jazz studies program. His recordings include The End of the Open Road, Tango Cool, and The City is a Chinese Vase. He has also produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Buddy Montgomery and others. Gioia has also served as the founding President of www.jazz.com, a leading music portal on the Internet. Gioia holds degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University, as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Primary Contributions (1)

B.B. King playing an electric guitar with an expressive face, wearing a plaid jacket, June 19, 1979.

Mississippi Delta blues

Mississippi Delta blues, regional style of early 20th-century American folk music, centered in the Delta region of northwestern Mississippi. The pioneers of the style played a key role in developing the market for traditional blues recordings in the 1920s and ’30s, while the subsequent generation…

Publications (3)

The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire (September 2012)

By Ted Gioia

The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings.

Many books recommend jazz CDs or discuss musicians and styles, but this is the first to tell the story of the songs themselves. The fan who wants to know more about a jazz song...

The History of Jazz (May 2011)

By Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present.Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and...

Delta Blues The Life And Times Of The Mississippi Master Who Revolutionized (October 2009)

By Ted Gioia

“The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into...