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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

  • Author: Gioia, Ted
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
Mr. Gioia's is the first general-interest, wide-ranging and authoritative guide to the basic contemporary jazz canon

The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

  • Author: Gioia, Ted

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

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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.

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

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

This book should be in the library of every gigging jazz musician and every serious jazz fan
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