Great Jazz Pianists CD: Instrumental Jazz From the 20s 30s & 40s Fats Waller; Earl Hines; James P Johnson; Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. Remastered By Past Perfect Vintage Music

• Including accurate discographcal data, with studio matrix numbers, dates and identities of vocalists

The piano is the most versatile of musical instruments. It enables a player to combine notes and create complex chords. For the ‘Great’ Jazz Pianists, greatness is no easy matter to define, and arguments will continue to rage over the merits of each of these soloists when compared to one another. The evidence is here and all you have to do is listen! Fats Waller: Carolina Shout; Ain't Misbehavin' Earl Hines: Fifty-Seven Varieties; My Melancholy Baby James P Johnson: Snowy Morning Blues; You've Got To Be Modernistic Jelly Roll Morton: King Porter Stomp; Original Rags Duke Ellington: Swampy River Willie 'The Lion' Smith: Passionette; Morning Air Art Tatum: Humoresque; Begin The Beguine Teddy Wilson: Tiger Rag; When You And I Were Young, Maggie Billy Kyle: Finishing Up A Date Teddy Weatherford: My Blue Heaven Donald Lambert: Pilgrim's Chorus Garland Wilson: Rockin' Chair Mary Lou Williams: Swingin' For Joy Joe Turner: The Ladder Joe Sullivan: Little Rock Getaway