The great jazz pianists : speaking of their lives and music /
This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews that present 27 pianists in their own words, is both wonderfully anecdotal and a serious piece jazz history. Lyons has assembled a giant concert of piano...
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New York, N.Y. :
Da Capo Press,
1989
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Table of Contents:
- A survey of the jazz pianists and their tradition
- Theodore "Teddy" Wilson
- Mary Lou Williams
- John Lewis
- Sun Ra
- George Shearing
- Dave Brubeck
- Ahmad Jamal
- Horace Silver
- Oscar Peterson
- William "Red" Garland
- Jimmy Rowles
- Paul Bley
- Marian McPartland
- Billy Taylor
- John "Jaki" Byard
- Ran Blake
- Ramsey Lewis
- Randolph "Randy" Weston
- Bill Evans
- Steve Kuhn
- McCoy Tyner
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Armando "Chick" Corea
- Herbie Hancock
- Josef "Joe" Zawinul
- Keith Jarrett
- Cecil Taylor
- Appendix
- Index