Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On

About Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell is a writer and pianist. A California native he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and holds a doctorate from Peabody Conservatory where he studied piano with Leon Fleisher. As a commercial musician he has assisted such artists as Angela Lansbury Gladys Knight and the Pips Bob Hope Redd Foxx Ethel Merman and Don McLean. As a concert pianist he has performed a broad range of repertoire including his own transcriptions of recordings by Art Tatum Jelly Roll Morton and other legendary jazz pianists. He also performs all of the piano selections included with this textbook. Michael Campbell is a writer and pianist. A California native he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and holds a doctorate from Peabody Conservatory where he studied piano with Leon Fleisher. As a commercial musician he has assisted such artists as Angela Lansbury Gladys Knight and the Pips Bob Hope Redd Foxx Ethel Merman and Don McLean. As a concert pianist he has performed a broad range of repertoire including his own transcriptions of recordings by Art Tatum Jelly Roll Morton and other legendary jazz pianists. He also performs all of the piano selections included with this textbook.