Top Keys Man excluding Wakey/Emmo/Banks

Outside of Keith Emerson,Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks who is the best prog keyboard player in your opinion?

Moraz has wrote some excellent songs as has Rudess.

I guess technically it might be Moraz, or Francis Monkman given his classical training. I read that Patirck Moraz injured his right hand when young (he recovered fully) during which time he learned to use his left hand as the "lead" (if that's the right term), hence he can go very bloody fast!!

Out of this list Eddie Jobson. Dave Stewart should have been on it, it would have been a dead race between him and Jobson then.
A nice anecdote: I went to an Eric Burdon concert once with Brian Auger on keyboards, and during the concert the guitar player broke a string in the middle of a song, and Auger quickly reacted and filled the time until the guitar player had put in a new string with a completely improvised solo. That's professionalism!

Greg Giuffria -(ANGEL,GIUFFRIA,HOUSE OF LORDS)

who said Wakeman/Emerson/Banks are the best?

My vote goes for Jarre,Vangelis and let's say,Tomita

DEzerov wrote: Let's hear it for two great Italians.......... Vittorio Nocenzi of Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso               and Flavio Premoli of PFM

 

Ill go with Moraz on the list

Jordan Rudess by far

BigHairyMonster wrote: I voted other in respect to the one who shreds them all:  Art Tatum.  As good as they are, no one in this list touches what that man could do.  Download a wav file of Tatum playing Liza (Take D) from the album Classic Early Solo 1934-1937 and you will see what I mean.  Blind since birth, he could play circles around Wakeman, Emerson and Corea and all he would need is his left hand. A talent unequalled.

I think the poll is meant to mean other "prog" keyboard players, but you have a good point and yes Art Tatum is phenomenal. He's not the only great pianist mind there's many others in jazz and classical music.

The ELP DVD "Beyond the Beginning" has a clip from when Keith Emerson was invited on the Oscar Peterson Show, and in his biography Emmo admits he was scared witless at the prospect. He (Emo) plays really well, but  once he's finished Oscar Peterson plays a few bars - nothing flash, but it's just  enough to make you realise ah, now thats a piano player. And I'm not being derogatory to Keith Emerson or Wakeman or the others (God I wish I could play like them!) it just makes you realise there's a whole other world out there, and sometimes you have to stand back and put descriptions of prog musicians virtuosity in a wider musical context.

Drachen Theaker wrote: Colin Towns of the Ian Gillan Band is another unheralded keyboard king.

Totally agree! Colin Towns is great, but I'm afraid he's not that well-known. BTW, I voted for Jon Lord, just to keep things in the family...