TY - BOOK ID - 147680719 TI - Statesman of the piano : jazz, race, and history in the life of Lou Hooper AU - Mills, Sean AU - Fillion, Eric AU - Rochat, Désirée PY - 2023 SN - 022801915X 0228019168 PB - Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jazz musicians. KW - African diaspora. KW - Black Canadian. KW - Buxton. KW - Detroit. KW - Harlem Renaissance. KW - Montreal. KW - Musicians. KW - New York. KW - Quebec. KW - Sound. KW - Toronto. KW - World War II. KW - archives. KW - autobiography. KW - blues. KW - border. KW - classical. KW - folk songs. KW - jazz. KW - life story. KW - memory. KW - migration. KW - race records. KW - ragtim. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147680719 AB - Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977), Paul Robeson's first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics. ER -