Ted Gioia

Healing Songs provides a penetrating look at therapeutic music. . . . Healing Songs is the type of book which will certainly have a wide reading appeal among those who enjoy jazz, music, sonic... — Jazz ReviewMore…

Apart from his elegant prose style, the first thing you notice about Ted Gioia's approach to his subject is that the music clearly gives him no end of pleasure — The IndependentMore…

[a] wide-ranging and fascinating study — The GuardianMore…

Mr. Gioia's is the first general-interest, wide-ranging and authoritative guide to the basic contemporary jazz canon — Wall Street JournalMore…

If you are looking for an introduction to jazz, this is it. If you know and love jazz well, this is your vade mecum. Me, I expect to be reading around in it for the rest of my life...[It is]... — Washington PostMore…

A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation — Los Angeles TimesMore…

[a] wide-ranging and fascinating study — The GuardianMore…