Inhalt:
This book presents a concise history, or survey of jazz piano. In 13
hands-on lessons and 4 bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles,
musical vocabulary, and performers who have defined and shaped this elusive
American art form over the last century.

Starting with the pre-ragtime music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and ragtime of
Scott Joplin, and ending with the advanced scale types of Nicholas Slonimsky
and music of McCoy Tyner, Mr. Hyman discusses and demonstrates the
astonishing variety of jazz piano improvisation and the people and techniques
that have shaped its evolution.

The included DVD, showing all 13 lessons and 4 bonus performances, is filled
with closeups of Mr. Hyman's hands as he plays and discusses these
techniques. This fascinating package also features a preface and
autobiography of Hyman.