Ted Gioia

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Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia (* 1957 in Palo Alto ) is an American jazz and blues author, jazz pianist and composer .

life and work

Gioia grew up as the son of Mexican-Sicilian parents in Hawthorne in the Los Angeles area . He studied English Literature at Stanford University (1979) and Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford (Bachelor’s) and earned his MBA from Stanford in 1983 . During his studies at Stanford he performed as a jazz pianist, taught a jazz class at Stanford as a student and wrote for the Stanford Daily . Then he worked as a business consultant a. a. for McKinsey and the Boston Consulting Group . For example, he was involved in the LBO and IPO of the optics company Sola International in Menlo Park in the 1990s . He currently (2008) lives in Plano (Texas) , where he works for a business consulting company.

In the 1980s he developed a jazz study program in Stanford, partly together with "Artist in Residence" Stan Getz .

Gioia is the author of several jazz books, including a general jazz history and a history of West Coast jazz that is considered a standard work. For "The Imperfect Art" he received the Deems-Taylor Award from ASCAP . He is one of the two editors-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians . In the 1990s he devoted himself increasingly to research into traditional folk music from around the world (“Work Songs” and “Healing Songs” also received the Deems-Taylor Award 2007, a book “Love Songs” is in preparation in 2008). In 2008 his book on the Delta Blues was published.

He also writes u. a. for the Los Angeles Times , where he first published the FBI records on Alan Lomax in 2006.

As a jazz pianist he has released three albums, including his debut album "The End of the Open Road" with Larry Grenadier and Eddie Moore .

He is the younger brother of the critic and poet (as well as ex-manager of General Foods and Chairman of the NEA ) Dana Gioia (* 1950).

Fonts

  • The History of Jazz . Oxford University Press, New York 1997; ISBN 0-19-509081-0 .
  • The Imperfect Art. Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture . Oxford University Press, New York 1988; ISBN 0-19-506328-7 .
  • West Coast Jazz. Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960 . Improved new edition. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1998; ISBN 0-520-21729-2 .
  • Work songs . Duke University Press, Durham 2006; ISBN 0-8223-3726-6 .
  • Healing songs . Duke University Press, Durham 2006; ISBN 0-8223-3702-9 .
  • Delta blues. The life and times of the Mississippi masters who revolutionized American music . WWNorton, New York 2008; ISBN 978-0-393-06258-8 .
  • The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford 2012; ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4 .
  • Love Songs: The Hidden History. Oxford University Press, New York 2015; ISBN 978-0199357574
  • Hear jazz - understand jazz. Henschel-Bärenreiter, Leipzig, 2017; ISBN 3-89487-948-3

Remarks

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazz.com
  2. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg Ted Gioia: Listen to Jazz. Understand jazz (discussion)
  3. ↑ Original: How to Listen to Jazz , Basic Books 2016; ISBN 978-0465060894

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personal data
SURNAME Gioia, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz writer and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Palo Alto