Ted Gioia

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Full Name	Ted Gioia
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1957(1957-10-21)
Age	67
Birthplace	Palo Alto
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Libra

Ted Gioia Biography

Ted Gioia is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on October 21, 1957 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Ted Gioia (born 21 October 1957) is a well-known American Jazz critic as well as a music historian. Gioia is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians and has written several books on jazz , including The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, The History of Jazz and Delta Blues. Additionally, he is a jazz guitarist and one of the founding members of the Stanford University’s Jazz Studies program.

Lifetime Achievement Award in Jazz Journalism, Jazz Journalists Association, 2017

The Dallas Morning News has declared Ted Gioia “one of the outstanding music historians in America.” The concept for “post-cool” described in his book, The Birth (and The Death) of the Cool, was chosen as one the top Big Ideas in 2012 according to Adbusters magazine.

Ted Gioia Net Worth

Ted Gioia is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ted Gioia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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

The year 2006 was the time Gioia became the first person to reveal, in an article published in The Los Angeles Times, the FBI documents on the folk and roots music legend Alan Lomax. He launched jazz.com on December 7, 2007 and was its editor and president until the year 2010. He also developed several web pages that focus on contemporary literature.

Gioia is the author of several other books on music, including Music: A Subversive History (2019), West Coast Jazz (1992), The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire (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. Love Songs: The Hidden History, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is a survey of the music of courtship, romance, and sexuality; 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 the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. In his study of love songs, Gioia contends that innovations in the history of this music came from Africa and the Middle East.

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Ted Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ted Gioia celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.