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; Aint Misbehavin
- Earl Hines: Fifty-Seven Varieties; My Melancholy Baby
- James P Johnson: Snowy Morning Blues; Youve 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