Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers by Fell, John L.

Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810835634)

Vendor: John L. Fell
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Format: Hardcover
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Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers by Fell, John L.

Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers

$86.00
Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers by Fell, John L.

Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers

$86.00
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on the authors' personal interviews and biographies, Stride! traces stride piano from generation to generation, from the originators Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, and James P. Johnson, through a succession of pianists like Willie the Lion Smith. Fell and Vinding also examine its influence on Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, and Johnny Guarnieri, concluding with a third and fourth generations that include Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman, and Dick Wellstood. The authors describe the exceptional Donald Lambert from personal experience.

Author: John L. Fell, Terkild Vinding
ISBN-10: 0810835630
ISBN-13: 9780810835634
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1999
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.74w x 0.79d
By John L. Fell
By John L. Fell
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John L. Fell (Ph.D., New York University) is Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University. His articles and reviews have appeared in Film Quarterly and the Village Voice, and he is the author of numerous books on film including Film and the Narrative Tradition (University of California Press). The lateTerkild Vinding was trained at Copenhagen University's Medical School, where he specialized in psychiatry. He was a trained pianist, music collector, jazz enthusiast, and researcher, and counted a host of jazz artists among his friends.

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