A brilliant and instructive treatise on the principles of jazz piano improvisation. Deals with all aspects, including a survey of piano styles from 1900 (stride piano) to the present day (contemporary jazz piano). A book which will prove of immense value to both professional pianists and serious students of jazz piano.

The fundamentals of jazz are here explained and systemized in 70 lessons based on 60 jazz standards. It covers the styles of musicians from Buddy Bolden to Dizzy Gillespie.

This is a brilliant and schematic history of two important aspects of jazz. Contents include fingered bass lines and solos for dozens of well-known tunes from every period. Twenty-nine pieces, from Bessie Smith to Miles Davis.

This book examines the structure of over 50 major performances from the great age of the jazz piano, 1936 to 1950, when ragtime gave way to bop. It includes improvisations by Wilson, Tatum, Powell, Shearing, and Silver.

This is a survey of the development of jazz piano from 1950 to the present, with many illustrations of left-hand chord voicings, right-hand modes, turnarounds, harmonic distortions, blues and modal fragments.