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.

At A Georgia Camp Meeting
(Back Home Again In) Indiana
Body And Soul
(The Original) Boogie Woogie
Carolina Shout
Elite Syncopations
Heliotrope Bouquet
Home Sweet Home
Honky Tonk Train (Honky Tonk Train Blues)
Infra-Inter-Ultrapolation
Lullaby Of Birdland
Maple Leaf Rag
Pasquinade
The Pearls
Poor Butterfly
Someone To Watch Over Me
Song Without Words
Theme From Polovtsian Dances
Yancey Special