About

This project introduces jazz piano to classical pianists through short bios, curated recordings, performance videos, and historical context. Built on a modular data model, the site allows jazz history to be explored, connected, and remixed rather than read linearly.

Sources used for this website include:

• The History of Jazz, Third Edition, by Ted Gioia
• Jazz Styles: History & Analysis, Eleventh Edition, by Mark C. Gridley
• The Oxford Companion to Jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner
• Introduction to Jazz History, Fifth Edition, by Donald D. Megill and Richard S. Demory (fourth edition)
• Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, by Gunther Schuller
• The Swing Era: The Development Of Jazz 1930-1945, by Gunther Schuller
• Jazz: A History of America’s Music, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
• Jazz Piano: A Jazz History, by Billy Taylor
• Wikipedia

This open source website is built using GitHub Pages. Contributions are welcome.

Thank you to professors Patrick Wolff and Yoshikazu Nagai for guidance.

Contact

If you have any corrections, comments, or question, you can email the author. If you are familiar with GitHub, you can also file an issue.