Jazz Articles

Dick Hyman: Century Of Jazz Piano

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2000

Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano is an extensive, in-depth overview of the piano as one of the leading instruments in jazz during the twentieth century. This two-disc CD-rom for Windows and MacIntosh, is essentially computer software that you install on to your hard drive. The software highlights the history, development, and prominent figures in jazz who helped shape the course, and direction that the piano would take from ragtime to bebop, from free jazz to fusion. Included is an ...