Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers

By Terkild Vinding and John L. Fell

Drawing on the authors' personal interviews and biographies, Stride traces stride piano from generation to generation, from the originators Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, and James P. Johnson, through a succession of pianists like Willie the Lion Smith. Fell and Vinding also examine its influence on Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, and Johnny Guarnieri, concluding with a third and fourth generations that include Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman, and Dick Wellstood. The authors describe the exceptional Donald Lambert from personal experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810835630
• ISBN13: 9780810835634
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"