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…

[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…

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…

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] stimulating and well researched journey right back to the dawn of music. . . . Gioia's handling of the material is exemplary, and although he has undertaken an impressive amount of research... — The WireMore…

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