On Monday, I posted on the 20 jazz pianists who had the biggest influence on changing the direction of jazz between 1900 and 1975. Today, piano masters explain and illustrate in videos different pre-war styles [photo above of Teddy Wilson]:
Here's Terry Waldo discussing and playing ragtime...
Here's Terry Waldo discussing and playing Jelly Roll Morton...
Here's Dick Hyman on the early jazz piano...
Here's Dick Hyman on stride piano...
And here's Billy Taylor illustrating the difference between swing and bebop...
Bonus: Here's Meade Lux Lewis illustrating the boogie-woogie...