The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306803437)

This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews that present twenty-seven pianists in their own words, is both wonderfully anecdotal and a serious piece of jazz history. Lyons has assembled a giant concert of piano voices--Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, Randy Weston, Cecil Taylor, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Chick Corea, and many others. The pianists are candid, intense, and always opinionated. Yet their responses are infused with a keen appreciation for fellow musicians, their contemporaries, and those who came before--Walter, Tatum, Ellington. For pianists everywhere, whatever their individual style, this book will speak to and for you as it expresses the thoughts of its many great artists.

Author: Len Lyons
ISBN-10: 0306803437
ISBN-13: 9780306803437
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/1989
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.00w x 0.85d