How to Listen to Jazz - Ted Gioia Audiobook

Written by Ted Gioia
Read by Ted Gioia
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Hachette Audio
Release date: September 19, 2017
Duration: 06:58:52

In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America’s premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today’s leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong’s innovative sounds to the jazz-rock fusion of Miles Davis, Gioia covers the music’s history and reveals the building blocks of improvisation. A true love letter to jazz by a foremost expert, How to Listen to Jazz is a must-read for anyone who’s ever wanted to understand and better appreciate America’s greatest contribution to music.

“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.”

‘The author’s career as a pianist and music critic positions him well to explain how to critically listen to a complex musical form like jazz. Narrator Peter Ganim’s ear for sentence structure makes him an able interpreter of the author’s ideas. Some listeners will notice that his phrasing palette is a bit limited or repetitive, or that his vocal pitch sounds like it’s being forced into a lower-than-normal range. But these complaints will become non-issues for most listeners because it’s the author’s extraordinary grasp of musical composition and performance that dominates the listening experience. His discussions of how jazz players think about musical structure and what performance aspects separate the pros from the rest of us are exceptionally lucid and enlightening.”… AudioFile