piano: jazz education needs classical training??

Date: 27 Jun 2003 22:48:29 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.jazz
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I mean, for just to play jazz piano one must get classical education??
(I must tell that this is not nedeed in the case of jazz guitar
education). If not, then taking classical piano training it's a
wasting time approach if all I want to do is learning to play and to
improvise over standars?? if the case it's yes, then the well known
master of jazz piano were classical trained in their former stages??
What it is the classic structure (if any) for jazz piano education
method?? (i.e. in jazz guitar you have first theory, chords
sight-reading, ear-trainig. Then, scales, arpeggios, harmony, comping,
improvisation, etc, etc. I mean, in general lines all the jazz methods
for guitars seems standards, therefore my last question: there are
such classic jazz method for piano that ignores completly the
classical/legit methods?
Thanks for the info.