Jess Stacy

Jess Stacy: Swing Pianist

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 9, 2014

The swing era is widely considered to be the golden age of big bands. Which is true, but the decade also was a period of widespread jazz piano genius. Before the trumpet and saxophone became all the rage on the heels of Louis Armstrong, followed by the electric guitar, the piano was jazz's elegant superstar. The list of exceptional solo jazz pianists who performed solo or led  bands in the late 1930s and early 1940s is extraordinary: Art Tatum, Fats ...
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