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Article: Book Excerpts

The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

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This article appears in the prologue of The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012).Introduction When I was learning how to play jazz during my teenage years, I kept encountering songs that the older musicians expected me to know. I eventually realized that there were ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007

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Various Artists Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Records 2009 “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Delta Blues & the Birth (and Death) of the Cool: Two definitive Ted Gioia Histories

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Does the music world need one more history of Delta blues music? Does a survey of a spongy concept like “cool" have any relevance in a post-9/11 world? Considering Robert Palmer authored a definitive narrative on depression-era Mississippi Delta music in Deep Blues (Viking, 1981) almost 30 years ago, and that Martin Williams and David Rosenthal, ...

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Article: African Jazz

Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz

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Index About the Author About The History of Jazz Excerpt: The Prehistory of Jazz Thoughts on Jazz by Ted Gioia Visit Ted Gioia on the web. About the Author Ted Gioia was raised in Hawhtorne, California, a working class neighborhood in the South-Central area of Los ...

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Tango Cool

Label: Summit Records
Released: 1990

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The End Of The Open Road

Label: Summit Records
Released: 1988


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