Ted Gioia is a musician and an award-winning music historian. His The History of Jazzhas sold 100,000 copies worldwide and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has also won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for three of his books. His writings have appeared in theNew York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Atlantic, theSan Francisco Chronicle, American Scholar, and Hudson Review. He served on the faculty of the jazz studies program at Stanford’s Department of Music, which he helped establish. Gioia is also a renowned jazz pianist, and has recorded three albums, The End of the Open Road, Tango Cool, and The City is a Chinese Vase.
