Ted Gioia
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Ted Gioia is author of 12 books, including The History of Jazz and Delta Blues. Follow me on Substack at .
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A visual demonstration of the power of sound to create order out of chaos.
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I’ve never seen anything like this on film before. Paul really has nothing at the 30 second mark—but 45 seconds later he’s got the makings of a hit single.
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Tomorrow is the anniversary of George Harrison’s death. Paul McCartney shared this memory on Facebook.
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This is a good time to recall that Gabriel García Márquez got rejected by The New Yorker in 1981—and the next year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Before there was rock & roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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This was Kobe Bryant, just a few weeks ago—helping crash victims.
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The Beatles playing rock & roll music with absolute authority.
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I now have the perfect footnote for all those hard-to-source occasions.
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Happy 85th birthday to composer Philip Glass.
Here's one of my favorite stories about Glass—from when he was still working various day gigs to pay his bills. Glass was called in to do plumbing work for famous art critic Robert Hughes, and this is what happened next. . . .
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Jazz pioneer Viola Smith (1912-2020) continued to play drums up to age 107. Here she is back in 1939.
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Fans of Martin Scorsese will not want to miss this TV commercial.
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The new owner of gangster rap label Death Row Records is a toy company famous for Mr. Potato Head.
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Over a dozen public libraries in the U.S. and Canada have begun offering their own music streaming services to patrons, with the goal of boosting artists and local music scenes.
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I once got to meet Umberto Eco—who was very memorable. But this film clip of him tracking down a book in his personal library makes him seem all the more impressive.
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In other music news, K-Pop vocalist in superstar BTS band is now playing the trumpet and has adopted the name Chet Vaker, in homage to a certain West Coast jazz musician. No, I'm not making this stuff up.
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There’s a widespread view that creative people wait for moments of inspiration. But McCartney, at age 26, is literally able to force these moments to happen. What a skill! And note his confidence & absorption. This is what the ‘flow state’ looks like in real time.
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Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash don’t care about your genre boundaries.
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I still remember my shock when I learned about the death of Bill Evans, 40 years ago today. I had just seen him a week earlier, and could hardly believe he was gone. All these decades later, I am still in awe of the quiet fire he brought to his art.
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Here’s a rare film clip of drummer Viola Smith, who left us this week at age 107.
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Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers defends her lyrics dissing Eric Clapton, claiming he makes "extremely mediocre music"
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Today I learned: Iggy Pop really does own a shirt—but only wears it for his parrot.
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11-year-old Nicole plays Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" (via Sheila E at ).
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It’s not every day you get to hear Duke Ellington make music with Louis Armstrong—but this happened in 1961.
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If you’re interested in learning more about Cymatics, this is the book to get. It’s expensive and hard to find—but an indispensable guide to Hans Jenny’s 14 years of meticulous experiments into the formative and organizing power of sound.
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Sorry, but the dog stole those chord voicings from McCoy Tyner.
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Macedonian percussionist Zoran Mazilov performs Bizet with liquor bottles.
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I'm told this is a drawing (by
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Devastating news—Chick Corea has died at age 79. One of the giants of jazz piano has left us—an irreplaceable artist and extraordinary individual.
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Isolated Lady Gaga vocal from Kennedy Center Honors performance is worth hearing.
http://t.co/3vVbIEfGkG
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Maybe the best jazz photo ever.
Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961.
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Here’s the great flamenco virtuoso Paco de Lucia (1947-2014) performing “Entre dos Aguas.” He would have celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday.
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Happy 96th birthday to Mel Brooks—who (among other achievements) slyly found a way to give Count Basie a cameo appearance in a cowboy film.
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People are justifiably curious about this process—because it looks like magic. Here's a brief account from my book Healing Songs.
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Twitter friends, I'm researching jazz vinyl cafes, and I am looking for examples that are NOT in Japan. Can you tell me about examples of this elsewhere (America, Europe, etc.)?
To be specific, I'm not asking about typical jazz nightclubs, but venues that just play jazz vinyl .
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt doesn’t think you know Beethoven the way you ought to know Beethoven.
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The song “Night Train” originated as a riff in a Duke Ellington composition (I tell the whole story in my Jazz Standards book)—but it’s safe to say that the Duke never envisioned this.
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Here are school children in Barcelona—who have been invited to come to school on their own vehicles (bicycle, scooter, skateboard, etc.). When the program started, only 5-6 children did this, but now everyone wants to participate.
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Today I’m celebrating the centenary of Dave Brubeck—born on December 6, 1920. He was an extraordinary musician, and a man of deep purpose & integrity in every sphere of his life.
#TimeForever
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You will not find a better photo of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
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Of the 58 important jazz artists who gathered in Harlem for this historic photo on August 12, 1958, only two remain with us: Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins—who celebrates his 90th birthday today. Let’s celebrate with him.
#NewksTime
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Let’s celebrate the greatness of Aretha Franklin—but let’s also create a music ecosystem where the next Aretha Franklin is nurtured and supported.
I fear that’s not happening, not in the least.
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A musician would need to generate 23 billion streams on Spotify to earn what they're paying Joe Rogan for his podcast rights (assuming a typical $.00437 payout per stream). In other words, Spotify values Rogan more than any musician in the history of the world. Sound fair to you?
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Happy 92nd birthday to saxophonist & composer Benny Golson—one of only two surviving musicians from the famous “Great Day In Harlem” photo of jazz legends from 1958. (The other one is Sonny Rollins.)
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“Then one day, our squirrel discovered the music of Sonny Rollins….”
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Laurence Juber, former guitarist with Wings, plays a Beatles song.
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You really need to see this video of 94-year-old stroke victim Julian Lee playing jazz piano for the first time in years.
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Chinese billionaire steps in to donate COVID-19 testing kits and masks to the US—which still seems incapable of testing patients despite months of advance warning that this crisis was coming.
Through a donation of 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks, we join hands with Americans in these difficult times.
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I'm wishing a happy 94th birthday to saxophonist Benny Golson—one of only two surviving musicians in the Great Day in Harlem photo of jazz greats from 1958 (the other one is Sonny Rollins).
Here he is pointing to himself in the photo.
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No one has ever played 4-mallet vibraphone with more mastery or sheer musicality.
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There are many expressive photos of Thelonious Monk—but this one (by Lawrence N. Shustak) makes you feel you're peering into what he's thinking while he improvises. It's a one-of-a-kind image, and one of my favorite music photos.
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“You’re gonna listen to Taylor’s version—and only Taylor’s version!”
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Lee Konitz performs in Paris in 1965. You might recognize the piano player.
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Record label Luaka Bop is reporting the death of the great saxophonist Pharoah Sanders at age 81—a tremendous loss of a major innovator. Sanders’s last album for the label, Promises (2021) was widely cited, by myself and others as one of the finest jazz recordings of the decade.
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December is a good time to remember that Vince Guaraldi did much more than Charlie Brown Christmas music. He was also a stellar jazz & blues player, and one of the first to play real bossa nova in the US—as demonstrated in his partnership with Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete.
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Frank Sinatra on Ella Fitzgerald:
“Ella Fitzgerald is the only performer with whom I’ve ever worked who made me nervous. Because I try to work up to what she does....I believe she is the greatest popular singer in the world. Barring none, male or female.”
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Youngsters in Nigeria play Fela Kuti’s “Lady.” (This is my idea of what children’s school music programs should be like.)
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Dave Brubeck left us exactly 10 years ago today. He wasn’t just an outstanding pianist & composer, but also one of the most decent and dignified individuals I’ve met in the music world.
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