I play a lot of jazz and blues on the piano, well enough that people pay me to do that. I can't read very well, and if I had to play Bach correctly (or, I'd really struggle even reading student etudes), but when I've played in big bands I've gotten by okay.
It's possible to learn the way I did, which was to first learn guitar and bass, and get an idea of how chord progressions work...
At that point, you can approach the piano like guitar, and play a bass line with your left hand and whatever chords you want on the right, and slowly move into reading and playing melodies from fakebooks.
That isn't, I think, a very hard approach to the instrument, and it gives you a lot of latitude on what you get from it. The first song I played on piano was Grateful Dead's tune Ripple... it's 3 chords and I just alternated the bass notes and sang the melody.
You're not going to find a method book that does that, because there's not a lot of method to it.
It's possible to learn the way I did, which was to first learn guitar and bass, and get an idea of how chord progressions work...
At that point, you can approach the piano like guitar, and play a bass line with your left hand and whatever chords you want on the right, and slowly move into reading and playing melodies from fakebooks.
That isn't, I think, a very hard approach to the instrument, and it gives you a lot of latitude on what you get from it. The first song I played on piano was Grateful Dead's tune Ripple... it's 3 chords and I just alternated the bass notes and sang the melody.
You're not going to find a method book that does that, because there's not a lot of method to it.