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Article: Jazz Piano.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 24, 1989
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Jazz Piano
Jazz piano came in strongly with ragtime, had a separate jazz existence, and then merged with the jazz bands which germinated in New Orleans and then moved up the Mississippi to Chicago and the country at large. The importance of the piano in jazz is demonstrated in Jazz Piano, collected by the Smithsonian's resident jazz scholar and critic, Martin Williams (Smithsonian Recordings, Dept. JP, P.O. Box 23345, Washington, D.C. 20026). On four CDs (or six LPs ...