Ted Gioia

 ( 1957 Births ) 

Gioia is the author of several books on music, including Music: A Subversive History (2019), West Coast Jazz (1992), (2012), and The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009). A second updated and expanded edition of The History of Jazz was published by Oxford University Press in 2011, and a third revised edition was issued in 2021. Weiner, Natalie, "Re-Revising The History Of Jazz", NPR.org, July 15, 2021 (includes an interview with author Gioia) Love Songs: The Hidden History, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is a survey of the music of courtship, romance, and sexuality; Love Songs: The Hidden History, by Ted Gioia, at Penn State University Libraries it completes a trilogy of books on the social history of music that includes Work Songs (2006) and Healing Songs (2006). All three books have been honored with ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award. "40th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Presented", ASCAPFoundation.org, October 15, 2007 "48th Annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award Winners", ASCAPFoundation.org, November 8, 2016 In his study of love songs, Gioia contends that innovations in the history of this music came from Africa and the Middle East.

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. Gioia, Ted, "The Red Rumor Blues," Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2006 He founded the website jazz.com in December 2007 and served as president and editor until 2010.

Gioia is also a jazz pianist and composer. He has produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, and Buddy Montgomery.

• Music: A Subversive History, Basic Books (2019);
• , Oxford University Press (2012);
• The History of Jazz, Oxford University Press1st edn (1997); 2nd edn (2011); 3rd edn (2021);
• How to Listen to Jazz, Basic Books (2016);
• The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, Speck Press (2009);
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters who Revolutionized American music, Norton (2008);
• West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960, Oxford University Press 1st edn (1992); 2nd edn (1998);
• The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture, Oxford University Press (1988);
• Love Songs: The Hidden History, Oxford University Press (2015);
• Work Songs, Duke University Press (2006);
• Healing Songs, Duke University Press (2006);

• The End of the Open Road, Ted Gioia Trio, Quartet Records Q1001 (1988);

Recorded June 9–11, 1986, and October 19, 1987, Menlo Park, California

• Tango Cool, Ted Gioia Trio, Quartet Record QCD1006 (1990);

Recorded March 31, 1989, and April 7, 1990, San Francisco

• The City is a Chinese Vase (1998)

The Dallas Morning News has called Ted Gioia "one of the outstanding music historians in America." His concept of "post-cool" described in his book The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, was selected as one of the Big Ideas of 2012 by Adbusters magazine.

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award: The Imperfect Art (1989), Work Songs (2006), Healing Songs (2006), Love Songs: The Hidden History (2015).