Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory

Show More

for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike.

Show Less