Stride! - Fats, Jimmy, Lion Lamb, And All the Other Ticklers

Includes musical examples.

A carefully documented and accurate account of the world and the players at the origin of stride piano. Drawing on the authors' personal interviews and biographies, the book traces stride from generation to generation, from the originators Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, and James P. Johnson through a succession of such pianists as Willie "the Lion" Smith, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, and Johnny Guarnieri, concluding with a third and fourth generation that includes Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman, and Dick Wellstood.