# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-gioia
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:25.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-gioia"
name: "Ted Gioia"
slug: "ted-gioia"
description: "Ted Gioia is an American jazz critic and music historian. He is author of 12 books, including Music: A Subversive History, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, The History of Jazz and Delta Blues. He is also a jazz musician and one of the founders of Stanford University's jazz studies program."
tagline: "American jazz critic and music historian, writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A_photo_of_Ted_Gioia_at_Stanford_University_1991.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.264692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 18700
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.tedgioia.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTuRY58GauTM6wHA3_PPWRw"
    handle:    "@tedgioia"
    followers: 18700
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تيد غيويا"
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    title: "تيد جيويا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Ted Gioia"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump