The Great jazz pianists
Subtitle: speaking of their lives and music
By: [interviewed by] Len Lyons ; photographs by Veryl Oakland.
Contributors: Lyons, Leonard.
Edition: 1st Quill ed.
Publisher: Quill
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Pianists -- Interviews; Jazz musicians -- Interviews; Piano music (Jazz) -- History and criticism
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes discographies and index.
Table of contents: title: A survey of the jazz pianists and their tradition; title: Theodore "Teddy" Wilson; title: Mary Lou Williams; title: John Lewis; title: Sun Ra; title: George Shearing; title: Dave Brubeck; title: Ahmad Jamal; title: Horace Silver; title: Oscar Peterson; title: William "Red" Garland; title: Jimmy Rowles; title: Paul Bley; title: Marian McPartland; title: Billy Taylor; title: John "Jaki" Byard; title: Ran Blake; title: Ramsey Lewis; title: Randolph "Randy" Weston; title: Bill Evans; title: Steve Kuhn; title: McCoy Tyner; title: Toshiko Akiyoshi; title: Armando "Chick" Corea; title: Herbie Hancock; title: Josef "Joe" Zawinul; title: Keith Jarrett; title: Cecil Taylor.