Beautiful Piano Prog?
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Topic: Beautiful Piano Prog?
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Beautiful Piano Prog?
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 11:49
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I typed in Beautiful, because I'm not looking for technicality at all; just beauty, melodic. With or without a band, doesn't matter.. Just depends on the mood, but if I'm listening to Bill Evans, I just want the piano :) |
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 12:22
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Underrated Jethro Tull keyboardist John Evan quoting Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Debussy, among some blues and jazz, in "By Kind Permission Of": ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 12:25
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The first thing related to prog that came to mind was the beautiful piano in Take A Pebble...ELP....but perhaps that's far too famous for your tastes. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 12:38
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David Sancious .
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 12:39
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Kotebel - Concerto for Piano & Ensemble is the first thing that came to mind ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:05
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This whole album..actually there are 2...are amazing I Talk To The Wind by the Crimson Jazz Trio...the piano is superb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B5CLIOs3HU The interpretations are outstanding as is the piano, drums, and bass. I never tire of listening to these two albums. Prog and acoustic jazz with Crimson material as the foundation.....imho it doesn't get any better than this if you like KC and jazz.
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:06
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------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:32
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Ex Can-keyboarder Irmin Schmidt has some cool piano music (not on progarchives for unknown reasons). |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:35
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Wiiliam D. Drake: Me Fish Bring |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:37
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Some solo piano from Mr. Drake. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 13:52
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Awesome David Sylvian |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 14:06
I don't mind famous at all.. Thank you, I'm listening to it now, sounds good. |
dr wu23 wrote:Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 14:08
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Check out the beautiful pianism of Luciano Basso throughout this album: For a bonus, it also contains my favourite harpsichord break in prog. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 14:22
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Dejan Ilijic of Eyot: ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 14:29
great one Doc.. but not the first two I thought of... the epitome to me of beautiful piano prog Mort... Schooldays by Gentle Giant... so beautiful... Gentle Giant spent the rest of the 70's forgetting just how beautiful music could be and being souless and cold 2nd choice.. Kobaia by Magma.. that piano solo touches my nether regions like few others. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 14:58
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Hiromi Uehara ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 15:54
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One word: Rachel's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVW2uuThW8M" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVW2uuThW8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFgtBxU7iU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFgtBxU7iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArFeqv0GvoA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArFeqv0GvoA ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 16:57
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Fugue - ELP gets me every time! I'll try to think of a less obvious one though - often you find them in the middle of epic songs and really bring something to the track. Off the top of my head, the short piano run in Spock's Beard's The Doorway is lovely, but there must be hundreds out there. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 01 2018 at 21:31
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Posted By: chunky1
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 03:43
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That is epic man! Makes me think about life more. ------------- https://worldinteriors.co.uk%7d" rel="nofollow - Solid Wood Furniture |
Posted By: Argos
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 04:48
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I'd say most of ELP's first album is filled to the brim with keyboards. Maybe Premiata Forneria Marconi's Storia di Un Minuto too. ------------- "All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust And so all things, time will mend So this song will end" |
Posted By: TheH
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 07:54
Posted By: grantman
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 11:46
| take a pebble |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 13:03
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------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: April 02 2018 at 13:13
Thanks for the link... Have not managed to get this album yet, but managed to get Revere Reach and Briney Hooves.. His piano work sounds really good... Not sure what the Cardiacs sound like, do not own any of their albums.
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 10 2018 at 01:52
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 12 2018 at 05:50
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bill evans - piece peace I really love to hearing him without the quartet... just Bill and the piano and some really far out stuff. |
Posted By: entropía
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 11:11
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlK4mVCngc |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 01:52
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Renaissance has a lot of romantic piano playing although often more classical than jazzy. |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 01:59
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Rachel Flowers - the definite prog pianist. |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 02:05
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Some interesting piano playing is heard in King Crimson - Cat Food |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 04:24
| Bridge Across Forever by Transatlantic which is basically just piano and vocal |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 05:36
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Rick Davis side of Supertramp and some of Rodgers supertramp tracks is full of grand piano. Some melodic but also Rick could do intricate things as well. The solo on Child of Vision is genious. -------------  
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 06:17
for what it worth.. that album has bumrushed itself into my hypothetical 10 favorite modern prog albums list if I ever decided to make one. What a fabulous album.. do yourself a favor and make it a point to get it. The album closer on that most certainly has made my top 5 modern prog song list.... again.... if I ever decided to make one haha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 07:10
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Chris Ingles from Shadow Gallery also delivered some tasty piano: |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 07:19
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Let's not forget iamthemorning: |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 08:08
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Vangelis - the master of melodic and simply beautiful Piano in an Empty Room Memories of Green Prelude |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 08:14
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The Enid - The Loved Ones |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 11:15
Good ones ;) And so overlooked too..... ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 11:17
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I go with something probably new to people here but sure more "progressive" and that really smokes so many piano 'prog' when it comes to elegant and beautiful piano music. I'm talking about Billy Joel, his album "Fantasies & Delusions" is sheer brilliance. ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 11:21
Well, there are times when a 'simple' piano collaboration is even more outstanding than that, taking the song to another level. One example of that is Sabbath's Air Dance, Don Airey's flat out magic touch on that song definitely helped making it as enjoyable as most of the Supertramp tracks, let alone it is undoubtedly a pretty more rocking tune imb.... ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 11:30
well you got me there....not many can do that but showing my age in saying Billy Joel lost me after Glass houses... the first album I smoked dope to in fact. Downhill after that.. for him..and for me hahah I haven't heard that one. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 13:13
| Already mentioned, but I go with Iamthemorning and Renaissance. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 13:46
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Tony Banks' intro to "Firth of Fifth" is one of the loveliest piano moments I can think of. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 14:17
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Good songs with very little technical ability, though very melodic, emotional/moving? |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 14:20
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A few come to mind. One for the Vine by Genesis and House With No Door by Van der Graaf Generator ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 14:54
Give it a try man, sure you'll gimme plus one o'respect point for it haha , but I'd say that listening to that album won't enhance dope smoking nor make it any better, neither vice versa ;) As for the other Billy Joel's works, there are a bunch of songs on his post Glass Houses releases that I really care for, particularly their live performances. ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 16:26
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Good call on The Enid, some lovely keyboard stuff there. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 17:04
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These are my very favorites: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO CICADA (Taiwanese / Jesey Chiang) ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (soundtrack artist) PSYCHIC TRAVELLER GLEB KOLYADIN / IAMTHEMORNING EYOT Also worthy of checking out: DUNGEN UNAKA PRONG TORI AMOS SVETAMUZIKA MANEIGE KOTEBEL KATE BUSH IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE HIROMI UEHARA DAVID MINASIAN SUNWRAE SETNA POLLEN MICE ON STILTS CIRRUS BAY CHICK COREA BLUE NILE BENT KNEE AMPLEDEED AMOEBA SPLIT AFTER CRYING ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 22 2018 at 07:02
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Also Yiruma - although no connection to prog. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 22 2018 at 07:34
Actually, I would go check Rachel Flowers and appreciate the piano and organ versions she has of a lot of ELP and Keith's work. It defines what MUSIC is really all about that so many rock fans (progressive included!) can not and do not appreciate, and worse ... they won't listen to it, because it is not electrified or noise'ified. I don't mind your question, but even Rick Wakeman has done acoustic piano versions of his material and other folks' material ... and I think that it is possible that you are walking a fine line to not appreciating a lot of music simply because it doesn't have "beautiful piano". Things like Banco, and many Italian bands (specially) have outstanding classically sounding material and use a piano, very differently than how we think and expect due to the top of the pops styles that we're used to hearing all the time! Other than that ... for you there's always Elton John, right?  ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: April 22 2018 at 12:40
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 24 2018 at 09:30
I think Rick Davies of Supertramp might be my very favorite. He has such great taste, and in the studio, never plays an extra note, leaves space. Though it's very simple, the piano solo on "School" is a great one. Funny thing is, each guy play their best solos on the OTHER guys' song (Hodgson's guitar solo on "Waiting so Long"). Child of Vision is amazing, too.. I think the Am-F riff on "Crime of the Century" might be the best ever, even though it took 30 seconds to figure it out. Another thing that sometimes gets lost are the chords. "Just a Normal Day" would be one example, but also how they fit together. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: April 24 2018 at 10:25
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Love that simple Wakeman tickling of the ivories in the middle of Southside of the Sky. Wonderfully emotive and a great lead up to what ensues. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 24 2018 at 13:48
| ^ Indeed. Fragile was my first Yes album, and at first it was somewhat difficult to understand. That piano part was one of the hooks that kept me listening to the album over and over again until I finally clicked and became one of my favourite albums up until now. |
Posted By: PeterKiel
Date Posted: April 29 2018 at 05:04
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I have a solo project called Forest god featuring members of SuperScum, Myrkur and Essence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REK6Rhw8v8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpVIN3gNd4 I hope you like it. Best regards Peter
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 04 2025 at 20:06
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Laurence Vanay - check out this entire album! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: January 06 2025 at 23:31
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Roland Bocquet's song "La Suite d'Elsa" comes to mind, from the album Paradia. Reminds me of Tony Banks, like an extension of the intro to "Firth of Fifth".
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 07 2025 at 06:03
Hi, Her piano version of TARKUS ,,, simply shows what a great piano concerto that piece is ... simply extraordinary! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 07 2025 at 06:20
Hi, I don't think he is overlooked, except by an audience of rockers that don't know movies, or music history ... and he had already in his closet an OSCAR, which makes any adulation by some kids kinda ridiculous and silly at the same time ... not to mention commercial and the very opposite of what Vangelis stood up about all the time! He will be remembered a long time ... a very long time! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 07 2025 at 06:22
Hi, Another composer that also won an OSCAR during his life for his soundtracks ... and he has a lot of albums of him doing solo piano, and the best known is probably his solo tour on piano playing the theme songs from so many films ... kinda makes you cry in some pieces. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 07 2025 at 06:31
Hi, Interesting choice ... some nice stuff, though so many of the films did not exactly gt shown in America, and a lot of the streaming services, STILL, are not up to par on international cinema ... they still go around saying that nobody reads subtitles, as if everyone that watches movies were not able to read! Girl With a Pearl Earring Eager Bodies The Corsican File Casanova (Hallstrom's) Firewall The Queen Painted Veil Lust, Caution Julie & Julia Coco Before Chanel The Ghost Writer Tamara Drewe ... a couple of Harry Potter films Renoir Venus in Fur Fanny Everything Will Be Fine ... just to name a few of his films ... ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 07 2025 at 06:57
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From a recent addition to PA: |