Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Any book titled "How to..." could be written in under 10 pages, so to make this book close to full-length (224 pages generously spaced), Gioia necessarily expands that topic into a jazz overview and history. http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC. The book deserves a place alongside such classic works of jazz criticism as Martin Williams's The Jazz Tradition, Will Friedwald's Jazz Singing, the books of Gary Giddins and Gioia's own The History of Jazz. In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms.He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. The Economist "Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. The name field is required. Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this WorldCat.org search. “How to Listen to Jazz fills an important and obvious gap by offering a sensible and jargon-free introduction to what Gioia calls ‘the most joyous sound invented during the entire course of twentieth-century music.’ The book deserves a place alongside such classic works of jazz criticism as MartinWilliams’s The Jazz Tradition, Will Friedwald’s Jazz Singing, the books of Gary Giddins and Gioia’s own The History of Jazz.”, “Written primarily to introduce newcomers to the genre and its primary artists, this volume should prove to do just what Gioia set out to accomplish.”. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. OCLC’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus issues in their communities. Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. His new book is an effort to correct that, and to teach casual listeners how 'careful listening can demystify virtually all of the intricacies and marvels of jazz.' He writes like a scientist who knows chemistry inside and out, yet still marvels at the unfettered power of a reaction... How to Listen to Jazz is the rare textbook that educates while fostering genuine excitement." Please enter the subject. The book deserves a place alongside such classic works of jazz criticism as Martin Williams's The Jazz Tradition, Will Friedwald's Jazz Singing, the books of Gary Giddins and Gioia's own The History of Jazz. His three previous books on the social history of music—Work Songs, Healing Songs, and Love Songs—have all been honored with ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. His prose is brisk and well-paced, with many surprising insights along the way." Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of eleven books, including How to Listen to Jazz. In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. ), Outstanding prescription for listening to jazz, Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2016, Review: How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia, Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. Its sound unequivocally calls forth narratives of past struggles and future dreams. Please try again. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Dan Morgenstern, Director emeritus, Institute of Jazz Studies and author of Living with Jazz "As jazz enters its second century, becoming more multi-faceted apace, guidance for the novice--listener or musician--is more useful than ever, and Ted Gioia offers it expertly, in blessedly readable prose.". Most valuable is the extensive catalogue of recommendations, not just of the genre's top performers but of 150 contemporary jazz musicians--a list that new fans can use to kickstart their journey, and experienced ones can reference to keep up with the form's continuing evolution." Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2020, This book was a gift and not for me. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Gioia aspires to 'bare my own process of listening' by, among other things, proposing various strategies for making the music more available... Before getting very far in this little book, you feel you are in good hands." Find all the books, read about the author, and more. How could I make amends? These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers.