88 : the giants of jazz piano / by Robert L. Doerschuk.
| Author/creator | Doerschuk, Bob |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | San Francisco : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publisher's Group West, ©2001. |
| Description | viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Eighty-eight |
| Variant title | Giants of jazz piano |
| Contents | The man who invented jazz. Jelly Roll Morton -- Masters of stride. James P. Johnson ; Willie "the Lion" Smith ; Fats Waller -- Singing & Swinging. Duke Ellington ; Earl Hines ; Count Basie ; Mary Lou Williams ; Teddy Wilson ; Nat "King" Cole ; Dorothy Donegan -- "God is in the house". Art Tatum -- Deep in the mainstream. Erroll Garner ; Ahmad Jamal ; Oscar Peterson ; Phineas Newborn -- In walked Bud. Bud Powell -- It started at Minton's. Tadd Dameron ; Hank Jones ; Jaki Byard ; Red Garland ; Tommy Flanagan ; Barry Harris ; Sir Roland Hanna -- Brilliant corners. Thelonious Monk -- Hard bop to funk. Horace Silver ; Wynton Kelly ; Ray Bryant ; Ramsey Lewis ; Les McCann ; Bobby Timmons ; Herbie Hancock -- Everybody digs Bill Evans. Bill Evans -- The sophisticates. George Shearing ; Marian McPartland ; John Lewis ; Dave Brubeck ; Roger Kellaway -- The neo-traditionalists. Jimmy Rowles ; Dick Hyman ; Dick Wellstood ; Dave McKenna ; Gene Harris -- The endurance of postbop. Billy Taylor ; Toshiko Akiyoshi ; Cedar Walton ; Steve Kuhn ; Chick Corea ; JoAnne Brackeen ; Kenny Barron ; Richie Beirach -- Old world, new flavors. Joe Zawinul ; Adam Makowicz ; Michel Petrucciani -- Outside looking in. Sun Ra ; Lennie Tristano ; Paul Bley ; Ran Blake -- Order within chaos. Cecil Taylor -- Back to the fountain. Randy Weston ; Mal Waldron ; Muhal Richard Abrams ; Abdullah Ibrahim ; McCoy Tyner ; Don Pullen -- Improvisation as revelation. Keith Jarrett -- The Latin connection. Chucho Valdes ; Monty Alexander ; Michel Camilo ; Eliane Elias ; Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- The future is now. Henry Butler ; Mulgrew Miller ; Kenny Kirkland ; Fred Hersch ; Billy Childs ; Geri Allen ; Renee Rosnes ; Cyrus Chestnut ; Benny Green ; Marcus Roberts ; Jacky Terrasson ; Bill Charlap ; Harry Connick, Jr. ; Stephen Scott ; Eric Reed ; Brad Mehldau ; Geoff Keezer. |
| Abstract | Presents profiles of eighty-eight jazz pianists, from Jelly Roll Morton, born in New Orleans in 1890, to Wisconsin's Geoff Keezer, born in 1970, with interviews and critiques, photographs, and a sampler CD. |
| Local note | Joyner-MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING 88 : the giants of jazz piano / Robert L. Doerschuk. SEARCH BY AUTHOR, TITLE, OR CALL NUMBER CD-5798. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2001043708 |
| ISBN | 0879306564 |