Hardback
240 pages
Oxford University Press
Illustrated.
The first full length biography of Art Tatum. Before this book, liitle was known about the great Piano vituoso. Lester conducted almost a hundred interviews for this book, with surviving family members, childhood friends, schoolteachers, and the famous jazz musicians who played with or knew him.
Lester creates a memorable portrait of this unique musician and of the vibrant jazz world of the 1930s and 1940s.
