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You've written 12 books on them ol' blues?! I find that hard to believe.
Which one I have 12 of them?
You've written 12 books on them ol' blues?! I find that hard to believe.
I'll go slow...
This thread is about a book the kid is reading. Not a book he wrote, ok?
I have 12 books on them blues, I'm not a writer..ok?
Wow!
If I ever think of you when I'm not on Spurstalk, someone needs to shoot me.
Why do you think you are more of an authority than the guy who researched and wrote this book?
Ted Gioia (born October 21, 1957) is an American jazz critic and music historian, best known for his books The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, both selected as notable books of the year by The New York Times. He is one of the editors in chief of the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. He is also a jazz musician and one of the founders of Stanford University's jazz studies program.
Ted Gioia (photo by Dave Shafer)
He is the author of several other books on music, including West Coast Jazz (1992), Healing Songs (2006), Work Songs (2006) and The Birth (and Death) of the Cool (2009). His most recent book is The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, published by Oxford University Press in July 2012. A second fully updated and expanded edition of The History of Jazz was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He is currently writing a book on the history of love songs.
The Dallas Morning News has called Ted Gioia "one of the outstanding music historians in America." Three of his books have been honored with the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award. His concept of "post-cool," originally described in his book The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, was selected as one of the "Big Ideas of 2012" by Adbusters magazine.[1] In 2006, Gioia was the first to expose, in an article in the Los Angeles Times, the FBI files on folk and roots music icon Alan Lomax. He founded www.jazz.com, a music portal launched in December 2007, and served as President and Editor until 2010. He has also created a series of web sites that focus on various aspects of contemporary fiction, including Conceptual Fiction, Great Books Guide, The New Canon, Postmodern Mystery, and Fractious Fiction.
Gioia is a jazz pianist and composer whose recordings include The End of the Open Road (1988), Tango Cool (1990) and The City is a Chinese Vase (1998). He has also produced recordings featuring Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Buddy Montgomery and others.
Gioia grew up in an Italian-Mexican household in Hawthorne, California, and later earned degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University, as well as an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He served for a period as an adviser to Fortune 500 companies while with the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co. He is also the owner of one of the largest collections of research materials on jazz and ethnic music in the Western United States.
Ted Gioia is the brother of Dana Gioia, poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.[1]
Just think what that guy could have accomplished if he had those 12 books of Avante's . . . staggering.
I know I;m more of an authority than the guy who wrote and researched that book. When it comes to them blues.
Dude, you really don't seem to be getting this. There isn't an old blues singer I;'m not aware of, ok? Kneedeep into this stuff...ok?
So, where's your book?
Kieth Richardson has been searching them out too in order to help them, if I am not mistaken.
Not just the books but the music, do you really think thast cat has listened to more blues than myself?
IDK. I'm wondering why he wasted all that time and money on Stanford and Oxford (who BTW have not won any 4x100 sprints relays since the invention of black people) when Avante knows all dem blues from a few mags.
My son in law is a computer genius, he knows all there is to know about them. , he can work on mine from his home....whoa! My grandpa was an ace mechanic, there was nothing he couldn't fix. Neither ever wrote a book.
I could talk about blues cats that author has never heard off.
DOES NOT COMPUTE MUST USE ANECDOTE
Try 12 huge books and over 1000 blues CD's.
I'd take Ted to school.
Oh yeah, over 100 Blues Magazines.
LMAO. It's too bad you ruined your troll already. You should have held back some. Seriously, PM me the log in info.
So, being a blowhard loser who's never accomplished anything is hereditary?
When is a son in law.....hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My grandpa owned his own business, I still get renewals from my insurance days. And am totally set $$$$$ for life.
Yep, totally wrong as usual.
I don't troll when talking music.
So, what good is all that knowledge if you don't do anything with it besides bulldog some losers on a message board? And . . . you can't even impress us.
Your son in law must have caught the loser disease by osmosis.
You don't talk music. You make lists and bulldog.
Ya ed up there slugger talking about son in laws and heredity, so just shut up..ok?
Why can't I just love the music know all about it like I do track and football? I also know all about literature but don't need to write a book. Just a guy who likes to know all he can.
Dude, leechs like you don't impress anyone either...ok?
Try reading my ..The Blues...thread little guy. Read what I told Katherine about the music.
Do you ever pay any attention?
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From: XXXXXXX
Hi Ted,
I just started reading your book, Delta Blues. I'm about a quarter in and am really enjoying your writing in telling the history of the music. I don't read much non-fiction but your work reads much like a good novel while still conveying the pertinent facts.
Besides being a fan of the blues, I am also a fan of the San Antonio Spurs. As such, I often peruse a message board called SpursTalk. There is a self purported blues aficionado named, Avante. He claims to know more about the subject than you do even though I don't think he as done anything besides getting information from the internet and Wikipedia. If you have a few minutes, would you mind reviewing his blues comments in the thread linked below and let me know if he knows what he's talking about?
Thanks and keep up the good work,
Bingo
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From: XXXXXXX
sorry...here is the link....
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...09#post7366809
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