Jazz Piano A Reader Volume 1

A Preface, an Introduction, 36 chapters and 368 pages of articles, interviews and commentaries by a variety of Jazz authors and critics highlighting the careers of significant Jazz pianists including Scott Joplin, Luckey Roberts. Willie “The Lion” Smith, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Joe Bushkin, Claude Hopkins, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Johnny Guarnieri, Mel Powell, Art Hodes, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. This is the first volume in a planned series on Jazz pianists.