Robert
L. Doerschuk
Backbeat Books, 2001
Hardback. 352pp. b&w illustrations. With bonus CD [11 tracks]
£19.99
With a foreword by Keith Jarrett.
With its title inspired by the number of keys on the piano, this book
portrays eighty-eight tastemakers of jazz piano - from visionary pioneer
Jelly Roll Morton to the vital players who evolve this art form today.
ROBERT L. DOERSCHUK, winner of two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for excellence
in music journalism, has been writing about music since 1977. He has held
editorial positions with Keyboard magazine, Sonicet, www.allmusic.com
and Harmony Central, and was editor-in-chief of Musician
magazine for four years. He is the editor of a forthcoming book Playing
From the Heart: Great Musicians Talk About Their Craft.
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 Flavours
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
Chuco 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
