YOU MUST be CRAZY!!!! Sonny is a “musician’s musician” – he would rank higher if this were polled from a sample only consisting of jazz pianists. Gene Harris? Tough to include Joplin, who, although he was a great composer, and, arguably the first , left no recordings, save for his ( no doubt edited ) piano roll of Maple Leaf Rag. 2: Teddy Wilson Seriously? the most shit rating ever! As Leonard Feather wrote in The Encyclopedia of Jazz when ranking pianists, Monk’s influence was primarily as a composer and a leader, not an instrumentalist. Here are my thoughts: BRAD MEHLDAU. Piano lessons are available for all skill levels and ages with instructors that can teach classical, jazz… Phineas Newborn How does one compare pianists with different styles? I guess you are glad that MICHEL PETRUCCIANI is on the list. Oh yea don’t forget Bobby Timmons!!!!! His Commodore recordings are one of the great pinnacles of jazz. how can Chick Correa and Kieth Jarrett be ahead of Earl Hines and Horace Silver. He was born in France but with a last name like that, his father probably is/was (?) Their areas of expertise include all levels of classical piano lessons and studies, all levels of jazz piano lessons and studies, as well as improvisation, harmony, and theory. Also worth a mention was Joshua Riffkin playing Scott Joplin. Duke should be in the top ten…wish he had recorded a solo album…. The absence of Brad Mehldau is unforgivable – I checked like 10 times to be sure I didn’t just miss him. In a bid to be heard in a big band ensemble, Hines began articulating melodies with octaves (or what he called “trumpet notes”), as well as using a tremolo effect (a rapid alternation of two notes). But ranking them is ridiculous. Phineaso Newborn is a huge miss – as others have pointed out Mulgrew and James Williams can be easily be added in front of a few on the list – Billy Taylor as well – and Hampton Hawes should be in the top 20 – sorry but Dave Grusin and Bob James are great players but no where near the virtuoso’s listed above – and for that thought Monty Alexander could blow most of these guys away – and what about Dick Hyman – I love Joe Zawinul and all of his music – but the list is of Pianists and a huge amount of his recorded work is Keyboard based -so not in the top 30 – finally Fred Hersch needs to be in the top 30 – for his musical diversity alone – owe and there is that Mehldau guy…. Born in New York, he rose to fame in the 20s as an accompanist of blues singers. Old hands playing very sweet music.. 8.Pinetop Smith So please give credit where credit is due. Maybe he also plays piano? Misunderstood by many, this North Carolina-born maverick (who was rarely seen without a hat) is one of the most idiosyncratic of the world’s best jazz pianists. From Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jarrett started playing piano at the age of two and rapidly blossomed into a precociously gifted child prodigy steeped in classical music. 6 Red Garland One of the true greats. so cheesy to make a list, moreso when it has to nod to the commercial stars of the recent era. Ein persönlicher Favorit von mir ist Alan Broadbent! Erroll said ”playing is like life -either you feel it or you dont” -so true. Two other people mentioned Clare Fischer. On one episode, he plays a nice version of GEORGIA and on another plays a more classical oriented piece. 3-John Lewis. So if you are interested in taking lessons and you are based in Westbury on Trym, Clifton, St Andrews, Montpelier, St Werburgh's, St Pauls, Hotwells or central Bristol (as well as a few additional locations!) Though he gleaned much from the left-hand stride-style of Art Tatum, alto saxophonist and bebop architect Charlie Parker was Powell’s main inspiration. If you don’t have time (or … 22 Joe Zawinul 18 Tommy Flanagan It includes 7 hours of on-demand video instruction, 38 articles and 36 downloadable resources to supplement your learning. Keith Jarrett & Chick Corea Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 5: Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) Outside of his band, Lewis made many albums under his own name, the earliest in 1955. Discovery Piano Studio is a school that offers piano lessons in the Columbus, Ohio area. A beautiful filigree touch, consistent and even fingering, and excellent pedalling In addition to piano tutorials, the piano YouTube channel features informational videos on different piano styles and composers. I’ll say I enjoyed this list overall. She’s a freakin’ genius! Jan Johansson should be on this list. He was one of the oldest but also one of the best! whoever compiled this list has clearly never hear Gene Harris play. Sorry. I really think this is difficult work. Between Chucho and Art Tatum a toss up as #1..2-3 Oscar. And there are people like von Schlippenbach, Tippett, Mengelberg, Morab, Ivers…, ridiculous list: Crusin, Kirkland, all these “Jazzrock” losers. Sponsored Results. Serving Seattle and … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0gLKvw0lI. He was Fats Waller’s protege and played with all of the Jazz Greats. There are lots of great women jazz pianists but we shouldn’t put women on the list merely to be politically correct. They also seem to find the perfect balance between restraint and expressivity while the others are simply on another level. You explained that in the beginning so there should be no complaining. Yes, if you listen to the superb 1946 Sinatra recording of “Sweet Lorraine” with the Metronome All-Stars, Cole’s piano is wonderful. In time, Benny Green will need to be on the list as well. 2. No Ellis Larkins? Fred Hersch? The Modern Jazz Quartet got me and countless others into modern jazz, as opposed to trad and Dixieland. Oscar Peterson is much too high for my taste. 14: Earl Hines (1903-1983) No Fred Hersch? I wonder if people know just how good Al Haig was. Hill, Cables and Hersch should be higher. If you are ranking, what are your criteria? This is not the case with concert classical pianists. Another hallmark of the Texan’s singular style was his use of two-handed block chords. But he was all arpeggio and flash . Are people not paying attention, or is this list changing? Here is just a sampling of his work and there is much more on youtube. Gospel music left an indelible mark on Timmons and its DNA can be detected in his playing and much of the music he wrote, which included the classic tunes ‘Moanin’’, ‘This Here’, and ‘Dat Dere’, which earn him his place among the best jazz pianists for laying the blueprint for what became known as soul jazz in the late 50s and early 60s. Dick Twardsik The top 10 is MINT……….JIMMY SMITH is a HUGE oversight, though. Yes you’re right And rock no less! 88 Keys Music Studio is a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs, Ohio Music Teachers Association, National Music Teachers Association, Ohio Music Education Association, National Piano Guild, and Rotary International™. Detailed notation of hundreds of amazing jazz piano chords, formulas, and songs. No Marion McPartland? Expand your jazz repertoire with our beginner jazz standard course. Yes, he diversifies his talent with bass and vibes but still deserves to be on the list of the greatest pianists. Lennie Tristano is $50. 23 George Shearing Claude Bolling I think you could make a strong case for Mary Lou Williams to be included on this list. At least a dozen people complainig that the mediocre Diana Krall didn’t make it in the list yet no one mentions Horace Tapscott. Bud Powell Masters of their craft, based on years of practical experience and education. By 13, he was playing professionally, and at 18 recorded the first of many LPs. Cedar was awesome.Listen to him all the time.Always inventive, always funky. Lists are worthless when they leave out folk like this: Where’s Sun Ra who was far more influential and certainly more entertaining than the vast amount of folk on this list. James P Johnson John Hicks could really burn the keys, and Brother Newborn, was on par with the great Oscar Peterson. Lil’ Hardin’?…. Pete Johnson I kept thinking doesn’t anyone know Tete Montoliu? Take another look and let us know what you think! The elder sibling of trumpeter Thad, and drummer Elvin, Jones, this Mississippi-born/Michigan-raised pianist was initially influenced by Earl Hines and Fats Waller, but later fell under bebop’s spell. Art Tatum definitely #1. He was completely ambidextrous and playing three against fours etc ( a horror to most human pianists) was like taking candy from a baby to him. Me too. Nat King Cole, was probably better known for his vocals, than being a piano player. There’s a good case that Bill is a Top 10 pianist, but that’s when the lauding should end. Born Conrad Clark, this piano-playing exponent of hard bop from Herminie, Pennsylvania, enjoyed a brief period under the jazz spotlight between 1955 and 1961. Nat King Cole was marvelous. First of all, there is a severe under-representation of brilliant, young pianists: Hiromi, Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Brad Mehldau, Fabian Almazan, Bill Laurance, Cory Henry, James Francies, Tigran Hamasyan, perhaps even the Wunderkind Joey Alexander. Russel Myers Piano Studio has been providing piano lessons to the people of Westerville, Ohio since 2000. This is why I’m against lists or tallys of who are the greatest this or that . Perhaps this list should have gone with 88, still matching the number of keys. How about the five best who are not on the list: Lennie Tristan The Atkinson Piano Studio is a studio in Columbus, Ohio that has been providing private and group piano lessons to students of all ages since 1992. As I said before, LENNIE TRISTANO IS #50!! The list should be extended to at least 88 names without ranking them. In this series of 25 lessons, Jazz legend takes you through composition, improvisation, and harmony. Magicians of the boogie woogie. No, is the answer. Oh good lord… . a must in the list. They cannot possibly all fit in a list of 36 musicians!!! Pianists are musicians and musicians are artists and not marathon runners, tennis players or race car drivers. DON PULLEN who played until his fingers bled? Mary Lou Williams Duke Ellington! I can’t believe that Dorothy Donegan has not been mentioned at all! Lists are silly. Jacques Loussier, John Lewis, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Petersen with their groups. A brilliant musician like Marian McPartland being left off is inexcusable. They have him ranked a little too high. Price. It’s the best place to learn piano. I’d have moved Dave Brubeck up the list a bit as he was the first Jazz artist to really help Jazz get into the main stream by aggressively touring the college circuit in the 50’s and popularizing Jazz with the younger crowds. Erroll Garner is a forgotten genius, should be placed at no.1 or no.2, his playing range was so wild and his style was so distinctive, his musical ability is outstanding. Because all those pianists you mention as in”but what about?”, are all on this list,except for Alice Coltrane. Anyone who can make “Mack The Knife” sound interesting must be good!! Starting out playing gospel music on the organ before being formally tutored in piano, Cole was schooled in classical music but quickly gravitated to jazz. so you include Duke Ellington and keep out BILLY STRAYHORN an RED GARLAND??? Device Care. 5. Each provider is evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their reviews, their presence on multiple review sites, and their average minimum rating. Hasaan Ibn Ali Arguably the most compelling album he made was 1955’s classic Concert By The Sea, which captures Garner in all his glory. Hiromi I agree with the many serious ommissions mentioned by others. It’s often overlooked that Washington, DC-born Edward Kennedy Ellington was a tremendous jazz pianist with his own inimitable style. 30: Hank Jones (1918-2010) He doesn’t deserve a top 36 spot!? Where’s Dave Brubeck and Nat King Cole? 29 Scott Joplin When bebop arrived, in the mid-40s, she had an affinity for the revolutionary new style, and was a mentor to Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. The missing link between Art Tatum and bebop, his status as one of the best jazz pianists of all time is forever assured. Roger Kellaway-Ray Bryant – etc etc etc And quite frankly I tire of “patterns” that a few of the persons above play over and over and over and over… regardless of how technically difficult they are to execute. 16: Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) Whats the reason for his omission. 27 Wynton Kelly And i happen to agree. And Nat Cole ? Duke is like Monk, inimitable–and of course, that partly comes from being a great composer first of all. Born in Connecticut with Cape Verdean ancestry, Horace Silver was an archetypal hard bop pianist whose rise to fame began when he co-founded The Jazz Messengers (which Art Blakey later took over) in 1954. 41: Jaki Byard (1922-1999) Thank you! Piano Faculty at LA College of Music since 2020. (but he IS one of the great interviews, commentators, raps, talkers in the jazz world…and, in the 1960s, helped direct where the music would go.). Missing: Ellis Marsalis, Bill Charlap, Fred Hersch , Diana Krall, Barry Harris. Apart from that: Nobody misses Cedar Walton? I am 50% Italian myself. Native New Yorker Thomas “Fats” Waller didn’t live to see his 40th birthday (he succumbed to pneumonia at 39), but nevertheless proved to be an influential pianist, particularly for his contribution to the evolution of the highly rhythmic stride style, an important foundation stone in jazz piano. Russel Myers, the owner and instructor, has over 30 years of teaching and performing experience and is a proud member of the Ohio Music Educators Association. What about Milt Buckner? But the piano has played an important role in the development of the genre, both as a spotlighted solo instrument and due to its role in the rhythm section, and the world’s best jazz pianists have elevated it to a crucial element of any jazz ensemble. Preparing for Jazz Piano Exams. How could you possibly leave out HIROMI UEHARA!!!!! There is an alternative top 100 list over at Ranker.com. The omission of Marian McPartland is criminal. 9. No Lenny Tristano at the list?How is this possible?Dave Grusin on the list? He should at least be in the top-10. Há outros e bem melhores!!! I’d include Herbie Nichols, Richard Twardzik. I think these lists are made up to include aspirants so when their agents or publicists are spinning they can through out the bomb ‘…they’ve been included in the Best Of …List’ and to wannabe enthusiasts it is the ultimate and for the lovers it’s a crime of omission. Respect from England. You forgot Kenny Drew and Cecil Tayler should have had a higher range. Joanne Brackeen should definitely be in the list. Tete Montoliu belongs very high on the list. I always find “strong opinions” some kind of ridiculous, and mostly I don’t want to join in the battle of all the “experts” (I am, because my opinions are soooo different). And Bill Charlap, in the top 36. Aside from guitar, vocals, saxophone and harmonica, he plays a mean jazz piano! Where is Joe Sample? I’m astonished, that nobody referred Hampton Hawes. the astounding Bill Evans. Richard Twardzik. A step by step exploration of tons of jazz piano skills and shortcuts. If the list would be longer, I definitely would add Jimmy Rowles, Bill Charlap and Georgy Szabados. How about Martial Solal?Do they all have tu\o be American? Evans’ influence – like Bud Powell’s before him – was pervasive, and many future jazz piano stars (from Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea to Keith Jarrett and, more recently, Brad Mehldau) are indebted to him. Katie Levine Piano Studio 1 Musical Instruments & Teachers. I wouldn’t know who to place #1, but I’d be choosing between Evans, Mehldau and Jarrett. If you needed to make some room in the 36 for the glaring omissions, conisder removing Shearing, Mays, Grusin and James. Ahmad Jamal I can spot most of the pianists I like, but if the number of albums in my collection is a good parameter I’m missing Monty Alexander. Dave McKenna and Marian McPartland would certainly make my top 36 and it’s tough for me to exclude them in the top 20, Dave definitely in the top ten. 10. From the early 30’s to the late 40’s boogie woogie was a commercial force in jazz. No list is complete without Vince Guaraldi, Monty Alexander, John Beasley and Nat King Cole. .but hey, it’s generated some thought and some memories and inspired some listening (at least on my part) and some discussion, all of which, I figure, is the point. And then I saw your post. A master of musical understatement. Billy Taylor? Join over 60,000 delighted students who have learned how to play jazz piano. He played with many of the jazz bands in the 30s and 40s Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey to name a few, and he had his own radio show. Thelonius Monk?? It was the latter quality that made Miles Davis such a big fan of his music in the 50s, attempting to replicate Jamal’s light piano style in his groups of that era. Thanks to you, Talking Stein, I went there ….. and No Thank You! This all depends on subjective judgments in time and space and who’s doing the judging. Bill Evans is my number 1. OLIVER JONES!!! He also often attacks the piano with brute force, though he can also play with extreme delicacy, employing staccato right-hand runs. Though he’s almost 80, Hancock still has the musical inquisitiveness of a teenager. Oscar Peterson number 2 after Art Tatum. I bet jazz lovers could come with a 100’s of great pianists but of course the one’s at the top This musician plays at special events, such as weddings, and also offers piano and harp lessons to students aged four and above. For shame. But online piano lessons are probably the best way to minimize the time you need to become a good musician. He’s in my top 5. Lists are silly. SORRY. Noteworthy Music is a member of the Grandview Area Chamber as well as Thumbtack Professional, boasting a 5-star rating based on student reviews. Sans vouloir oublier le passé, (je me souviens des concert live de Michel a Miramas et sur le port de Cassis)… New Jack Swing Fashion And Style: A Photo Essay, Best David Sylvian & Japan Songs: A Singular Musical Mind, ‘E=MC2’: Mariah Carey’s 2008 Album Is A Celebration, ‘Feeling Good’: Nina Simone’s Joyous Emancipation Anthem, Photo: Library Of Congress/William Gottlieb. I’m astonished that no one has mentioned Don Friedman. Grusin went on to become a prolific composer of movie scores (among them On Golden Pond and The Fabulous Baker Boys) and has also released a raft of keyboard-oriented studio albums. 26 James P Johnson Like fellow jazz aristocrat Duke Ellington, Count Basie’s prowess at the piano was often eclipsed by his role as a successful bandleader. Dan is a mobile piano teacher, able to provide lessons to students across an even wider area of Bristol. Extraordinarily versatile, and a composer/arranger as well as a piano player. As a teenager, Jarrett was seduced by jazz and quickly became fluent in its idiom. Here is the definitive list of jazz piano lessons near your location as rated by your neighborhood community. "One of the best jazz piano books I've ever seen - very easy to … 26: Willie “The Lion” Smith (1897-1973) Sheesh!! I do like your top 4 and was pleasantly surprised by it. And where the hell is Brad Meldau? My AUTUMN IN MUSKOKA should really be called AUTUMN IN HEAVEN!! He was described by Leonard Feather in the 1950’s as the greatest American born pianist of his day (after Art died). I might add to that list, Hazel Scott, Horace Tapscott and Bobby Scott (puns? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEJE2TVQ16M. 31 Michel Petrucciani I do not know who wrote this list and where he will take the information but a bit disappointing …. MARK EISENMAN?! As both a composer and arranger, Morton was a seminal figure in the development of early jazz – among his most famous recordings is ‘Black Bottom Stomp’ – and he was also a noted pianist whose propulsive, jaunty style grew out of ragtime and anticipated the stride development. EVER>! 2. She shares the musical accomplishments of her students by holding "Practice-a-thons," charity events that support the MusicCares Program at The James Cancer Hospital. I feel John Lewis is most underrated here. I personally think Mary Lou Williams should be somewhere on the list, maybe even Elaine Elias but there are a lot more great male jazz pianists than female. Who? I love Bill Evans but he was not better then Bud Powell or Oscar Peterson! 16 Herbie Hancock And the arguing goes on! 45: Kenny Barron (Born 1943) How could you do this! After Tatum, Monk, Lyrical Bill, there is a swarm of fine contenders. Steve Dobrogosz! Originally from Colorado, Grusin began releasing piano-led albums under his own name in the early 60s, a decade that also saw him break into the world of television music, where he wrote themes for numerous US TV shows. Herbie Hancock (read some of the comments that perpetuate the old “he can’t play that well” myth that Leonard Feather perpetuated–actually I don’t believe any of the others could play as he does nor should they try). I shall assume that he did not intentionally want to show off like he did with the piano. Hampton Hawes is another deserving pianist who both Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson admired so greatly. Jazz Piano Lessons. Finally, if we took into account virtuosism (true virtuosism, which involves making it sound clear and perfect) I’d add Hancock, Tatum, Peterson and Corea; Hancock being the one pianist who can get the best SOUND out of a grand piano – he’s absolute perfection playing chords. Barron’s own career began with sideman stints with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. 1. Created and delightful improvisations that remain engaged with the melody but are always resolved at conclusion Hiromi Uehara! Patrice Rushin? A retired college math teacher, Jane (former … Yes! Erroll Garner, Dave Brubeck, “Count” Basie, “Fats ” Waller & “Duke” Ellington not in the top ten….”SCANDALOUS” ! Private lessons include guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, bass, trumpet, trombone, french horn, baritone, clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe, drums, and voice. The jazz world has produced an abundance of super-talented piano masters in the past 100 years – many more than can be accommodated in this list of the 50 best jazz pianists of all time. I also am shocked that there are no women on this list. Piano has so many fantastic players that for me I have a huge amount of favorites. The theory lessons cover the fundamentals of jazz piano including basic scales and chords, common progressions such as major 251s and minor 251s and also chord extensions and alterations. ARE YOU GUYS BLIND!! Great list. Nat king Cole was a jazz pianist before he became a singer. C JAM BLUES! Though he’s an undoubted master of the electric Fender Rhodes keyboard (which dominated his classic 70s records), in recent years James has returned to the acoustic piano. If you don’t know her, get out there, drop whatever you’re doing and listen to her, and redo this list! A list like this is never going to please anyone. Way overrated: Chick Corea, Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Absolutely agree with you assessment – and Gene Harris deserve a spot. I agree with a couple of dozen on the list, but I would have thought that Maryanne McPartland deserved an entry somewhere. first, it is totally wrong to make up a “Top Ten List” of pianists, jazz or classical. I’m happy I joined! Private piano teacher since 2012 after graduating from Juilliard with Master's Degree. (956) 802-0121. Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello, members of the quartet, were progressive too, with Joe really embracing the bizarre time signatures they’d use. The late RANDY WESTON?! 7 Bud Powell My top ten list would definitely include Kenny Barron. Downgraded by some because he was accepted by the unwashed masse and not given to pontification about the very real profound nature of jazz, he is hardly to blame that playing piano came so effortlessly to him or that he always believed audiences should be entertained. And how about Jess Stacy? Other than that, might as well throw darts. You have Bob James and Cecil Taylor on this list, but you do not have Elmo Hope? 39: Barry Harris (Born 1929) Nevertheless, we must find a way to include several outstanding persons not on the list, in my order of priority they are: Johnny O’neal, Phineas Newborn Jr, Terry Pollard and Mulgrew Miller. WK is top ten for me. Their unique program, Musikgarten, is a comprehensive and sequential plan of musical development for newborns to children aged nine. 28: Ramsey Lewis (born 1935) As you said, the latter was a great composer and surely played an important role in jazz history, but he wasn’t a great pianist. I think there are two important ones missing. For shame. Everybody goes ape over Art Tatum.. Lists are a good way of focusing the mind, by making us consider who else could be there. 34: Cecil Taylor (Born 1929) You’re always in the bag? For instance we could compile a list of the best percussive players the list would completely change — if you get my drift. Herbie Nichols Here it is. He played as a sideman for Billy Eckstine and Charlie Parker, and was in bluesman Eddie Vinson’s band alongside a young John Coltrane. Anyone else own the album Mingus Plays Piano? Fats Waller Earl Hines Erroll Garner 17 ?????? I think she should have made the list. Basie also said that Hines was, “The greatest piano player in the world”. You can check out his piano work on Youtube (THE CHRIS NOWAK PROJECT Volumes 1 and 2). They have been forgotten in the list? Eddie, you need to give Diana Krall another listen. Workshops include composition, improvisation, ear training, music theory, and songwriting. I´ll miss Eddie Haywood, and as pianoplayer Nat King Cole, and last – Slim Gaillard, not for his skills but for make me happy, with his swing drive. MICHAEL KAESHAMMER?!!! 28 Ramsey Lewis I guess the first 36 pianists are some of the best! And, and, and…. A bunch of rock musicians ????? That was the year he recorded his debut album for Blue Note, and he went onto become one of the best jazz pianists the iconic label signed. And there is no way he should be higher up the list than Bud Powell. Take Five is consistently regarded as the greatest Jazz tune of all time by many. after Tatum No Eddie Higgins? A founding father of an accessible, R&B-inflected form of instrumental music called smooth jazz, Grusin is rare among the best jazz pianists for having also set up his own record label, GRP, in 1978. 33: Nat “King” Cole (1919-1965) If you take into account his composing and his position as a pioneer of bebop he should certainly be near the top but as pianist solely, not #2, really not Top 10. Jane. Taken as a whole , however, I doub t there has ever been as spontaneously creative a pianist as Erroll Garner. 4. Jazz - Reddit. An easy to follow action plan that will help you go from zero to playing songs you love in 30-60 days. Providing service with honesty, reliability, and respect. Though influenced by the romanticism of Bill Evans, there’s always been a palpable Latin inflection to Corea’s music, which has ranged from straight-ahead jazz to electric fusion (he led the jazz-rock behemoth Return To Forever in the 70s). finally he asked. Ann Graf Piano Instructor. Thanks Herman. And Abdullah Ibrahim. I did pick up a few names that I will make an effort to find for my own listening pleasure. Considering that both Oscar Peterson and Georg Shearing claim to have been greatly influenced by him I find it strange that Nat King Cole haven´t made your list! Jazz and blues piano lessons by jazz piano teachers who are Grammy Nominees and world touring jazz pianists. Not mentioned by anyone in this thread), Marian Petrescu (unbelievable), Michel Camilo. 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