Jazz piano :

Taylor, Billy, 1921-

Jazz piano : a jazz history / Billy Taylor. - Trade ed. - Dubuque, Iowa : W.C. Brown Co. Publishers, c1983. - viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

History and development of jazz piano -- Improvisation and the jazz vocabulary -- African roots -- Early jazz -- Blues-boogie -- Ragtime-stride -- Urban blues -- Swing and prebop -- Bebop -- Cool -- Hard bop, progressive jazz, funky jazz, the third stream -- Postbop and neo-gospel -- Abstract jazz, mainstream jazz, modal jazz, electronic jazz, fusion -- Future of jazz.

0697099598 (pbk.) : $9.95

82072444 /MN/r904


Piano music (Jazz)--History and criticism.
Jazz--History and criticism.

ML700 / .T38 1983

786.4/041