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Ted Gioia (born October 21, 1957) is a noted jazz critic and music historian, best known for his books The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, both selected as notable books of the year by The New York Times. 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 most recent book, a work of cultural criticism, is The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009).

The Dallas Morning News has called Ted Gioia "one of the outstanding music historians inAmerica." Three of his books have been honored with 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 founded www.jazz.com, a music portal launched in December 2007, and served as President and Editor until 2010. He has also published reviews of contemporary fiction at Great Books Guide, The New Canon, and Conceptual Fiction.

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, as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and served for a period as an adviser to Fortune 500 companies while with the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co. He is also the owner of one of the largest collections of research materials on jazz and ethnic music in the Western United States.

Ted Gioia is the brother of Dana Gioia, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.[1]

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