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Our favorite (jazz) pianists |
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Saperlipopette! 
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 Topic: Our favorite (jazz) pianistsPosted: March 20 2023 at 11:20 |
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I'm thinking primarly about piano players than I do organ/keyboard (if I didn't, someone like Mike Ratledge would surely be on my list) but you can think in whichever way you feel like. -My list is 90% jazz folks from the 1960's - 1970's, but it seems I was predisposed to love that before I was even born. So here's 20 of the pianists I just can't get enough of. The first seven or eight, or ten, or twelve are, like demigods to me. Mal Waldron Andrew Hill Herbie Hancock Ahmad Jamal McCoy Tyner Bill Evans Paul Bley Bobo Stenson Stanley Cowell Michael Garrick Horace Tapscott Sun Ra Cecil Taylor Chris Abrahams Horace Silver Alice Coltrane Chick Corea Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) Dave Brubeck Brad Mehldau Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 21 2023 at 00:56 |
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 11:54 |
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Jazz Pianists Top 10 Deodato George Duke Herbie Hancock Bob James Ramsey Lewis Greg Phillinganes Patrice Rushen Joe SampleLalo Schifrin Stevie Wonder
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 13:10 |
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One of our own... Oscar Peterson Plus Keith Jarret
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 13:40 |
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An all-star tribute to Quincy Jones, featuring four of my favourite Jazz pianists:- Herbie Hancock; Greg Phillinganes; Patrice Rushen & Joe Sample. Also featuring:- Patti Austin; Petula Clark; Billy Cobham; Paul Jackson, Jr; Al Jarreau; Chaka Khan; Beverley Knight; Nils Landgren; Nana Mouskouri; Freda Payne; Lee Ritenour; Curtis Stigers; Toots Thielemans; Larry Williams and many others too, including Mick Hucknall. Ain't That a Lot of Stars!  Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 20 2023 at 14:29 |
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 14:13 |
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Probably missed some. Will add if needed.
Chick Corea Hiromi Lyle Mays McCoy Tyner Kenny Kirkland Thelonious Monk Art Tatum Kenny Barron Bud Powell Herbie Hancock |
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 15:35 |
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Chick Corea George Duke Jan HammerHerbie Hancock Ahmad Jamal Ramsey Lewis Lyle Mays Oscar Peterson Patrice Rushen McCoy Tyner Hiromi Uehara
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 15:43 |
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No particular order:
McCoy Tyner Herbie Hancock Ronnie Matthews Bill Evans Wynton Kelly Sonny Clark Andrew Hill Cedar Walton Bobby Timmons Horace Silver Red Garland |
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 18:56 |
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There is only one, Art Tatum.
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 22:05 |
That said I've only listened to a few collections/albums in full... like the one "everyone" knows... Piano Starts Here - which is impressive and pretty. But it didn't make me feel anything. Also the posthumous The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet album - which of course is quite lovely. But I love listening to Ben Webster's cool warmth. -other than that I've heard the odd 78RPM-era ditty here and there, but not really all that much. Where should I go next?
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 22:30 |
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There's quite a few pianists in your lists I hardly know. I've
heard almost each and every one of them on some album(s), but not like
the ones in my opening post. By looking at your selections, most of you obviously include all kinds of
keyboard/el-pianos/organs. I was thinking of a part two focusing on
those, but I may not bother. There's quite a few overlaps anyway. I mean many of my most treasured Jamal/Hancock/Corea-albums are from their electric/fusion era, and the very reason I got into Mal Waldron in the first place was this masterpiece - his only album playing the el-piano: I notice two mentions of Patrice Rushen. I've got, and love her two first albums Prelusion and Before the Dawn, but after that I'm just mildly interested. A little too much pop-disco-funk for me to genuinely enjoy as full albums. Not really disliking it, but it doesn't really speak to me either. Do you like... love her Pizzazz & Posh-albums? Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 20 2023 at 23:53 |
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Posted: March 20 2023 at 22:51 |
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A selection of ten from the top, and a few reccomended albums to check out:
Mal Waldron: Up Popped the Devil, First Encounter, Black Glory, Free at Last, The Call, Set Me Free, Number Nineteen, The Quest, The Whirling Dervish, Set Me Free Andrew Hill: Compulsion, One for One [The Blue Note Re-Issue Series], Judgment, Point of Departure, Dialogue, Passing Ships, Black Fire, Strange Serenade Herbie Hancock (playing as a sideman for Miles and others on six out of these): Inventions & Dimensions, Some Other Stuff, Empyrean Isles, Crossings, The Jewel in the Lotus, Search for the New Land, Oblique, Mwandishi, Water Babies, Nefertiti Ahmad Jamal: Extensions, The Awakening, Outertimeinnerspace, Jamal Plays Jamal, Freeflight, But Not for Me: Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Pershing, Ahmad Jamal '73 McCoy Tyner (including two Coltrane albums) Time for Tyner, Asante, Focal Point, Extensions, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Sama Layuca, Expansions, Horizon, Cosmos [The Blue Note Re-Issue Series] Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Waltz for Debby, You Must Believe in Spring, Explorations, Bill Evans at Town Hall, Volume One, Undercurrent, What's New Paul Bley: Footloose, Touching, Live in Haarlem, Ballads, Paul Bley With Gary Peacock, Ramblin', Virtuosi Bobo Stenson (only the first one released under his name. Just use Google and locate the rest) Underwear, Oriental Wind, Witchi-Tai-To, Sart, Bazaar, Terje Rypdal, One Long String, Rena Rama - Jazz i Sverige '73 Stanley Cowell (a few with Bobby Hutcherson + several Strata-East-obscurities) Patterns, Medina, Live at Slugs', Volume 1, Live at Slugs', Volume II, Illusion Suite, Genesis, Blues for the Viet Cong, Why Not, Members, Don't Git Weary Michael Garrick Cold Mountain, Change Is, Dusk Fire, Live, Moonscape, The Heart Is a Lotus, Phase III Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 21 2023 at 00:59 |
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