Bill Lee - People in Jazz

Book is new but book cover is not in perfect condition

People in Jazz: Jazz Keyboard Improvisors of the 19th & 20th Centuries: Preragtime, Blues, Folk and Minstrel, Early Ragtime, Dixieland.

An extensive sourcebook covering the improvisational musicians of nearly two centuries. Biographies are included of close to 900 figures who developed the blues, folk and minstrel, swing, bop, cool, third stream and more. Some representative keyboard transcriptions are included as well as both alphabetical and chronological indices.