Gene Rizzo's book "The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time" ranks the masters and looks closely at each artist's indelible mark on the world of music.

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Pinetop Smith had died of a gunshot wound in Chicago by then so the top boogie piano players were Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Kansas City's own, Pete Johnson.

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For a time, "Pinetop" lived in the same rooming house as two other piano players: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.

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Piano and trumpet players infuse classic jazz into the bar and three dining rooms.

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With the help of a few guest players and the inclusion of the viola, lap steel, upright bass, mandolin, and piano, "Letter To You" has a rich sound characteristic of the 8-piece indie-pop-orchestral band Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

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