The Jazz Standards

A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 April 2021

Music; Music: styles & genres; Jazz; Blues; Techniques of music & music tutorials

An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page.

Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia has received almost non-stop feedback and suggestions from the passionate global community of jazz enthusiasts and performers requesting crucial additions and corrections to the book. In this second edition, Gioia expands the scope of the book to include more songs, and features new recordings by rising contemporary artists. The Jazz Standards is an essential comprehensive guide to some of the most important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The fan who wants to know more about a tune heard at the club or on the radio will find this book indispensable. Musicians who play these songs night after night will find it to be a handy guide, as it outlines the standards' history and significance and tells how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists. Students learning about jazz standards will find it to be a go-to reference work for these cornerstones of the repertoire. This book is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form.

By: Ted Gioia (Independent Scholar Independent Scholar)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190087173
ISBN 10: 019008717X
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 07 April 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ted Gioia is a pianist, critic, scholar, historian and educator. He is author of 11 books, including The History of Jazz and Delta BluesDLboth honored by the New York Times on their list of 100 notable books of the year. His three books on the social history of musicDLWork Songs, Healing Songs, and Love SongsDLhave each been honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Gioia holds degrees from Stanford and Oxford, and previously served on the faculty of Stanford's Department of Music. Praised as one of the leading music historians of our day, Gioia is a preeminent guide to songs of the past, present, and future.

Reviews for The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

"""If you look up just one title in The Jazz Standards, before you realize it you will have spent an intriguing hour or two learning fascinating and new things about old songs that you have known most of your life."" -- Dave Brubeck ""Which is best: interpretation or song? In any case, jazz and standards are forever locked in loving embrace. A finely researched work."" -- Sonny Rollins ""Mr. Gioia's is the first general-interest, wide-ranging and authoritative guide to the basic contemporary jazz canon."" -- Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal ""In virtually every instance, Gioia delivers."" -- The Atlantic Monthly ""One man's repertoire may be another man's B-list, but when the man is Ted Gioia, one tends to listen - in both senses. Gioia, among the most lauded of jazz writers, has chosen more than 250 songs. He tells the story behind each....Compulsively readable, and belongs on the shelves of every jazz lover, or jazz-lover wannabe."" -- Toronto Globe and Mail ""This book should be in the library of every gigging jazz musician and every serious jazz fan."" -- Library Journal ""What a useful and informative book The Jazz Standards is! Explaining the jazz repertory in a way that is accessible for the jazz beginner yet stimulating for the aficionado, Ted Gioia shows once again why he is one the best jazz writers around today."" -- Gerald Early, Editor of Miles Davis and American Culture ""Warning: This book is addictive....Putting together a compendium like this must involve prodigious research and an encyclopaedic memory. Fortunately Gioia...wears his learning lightly and conveys it with wit and insight, and a minimum of musicological jargon."" -- Dallas Morning News ""The book is wise, often funnyDLand it always accomplishes the highest mission of writing about music, which is to send you back to the music with wide-open ears."" -- Kansas City Star"