88 Keys, please

[peejay]

If a tinkling ivory is your thing, here's where to sing....Sorry, so there's a lot of guitar speak on this forum, but for me, the timbre from the attack of a piano note does it for me. Some favourites include, in no particular order (and this is music which features a lot of piano, or a synthesised piano sound):
1. Tori Amos (fave)
2. Elton (of course....)
3. Bruce Hornsby
4. Iva Davies (and his work with the ground breaking Fairlight synthesiser - Aussie spelling!)
5. Joe Jackson (just beacuse)
6. Vince Guaraldi Trio (go Schroeder)

That'll do for now......

[snarlydwarf]

the Keiths: Jarrett and Emerson.

[tomsi42]

If a tinkling ivory is your thing, here's where to sing....Sorry, so there's a lot of guitar speak on this forum, but for me, the timbre from the attack of a piano note does it for me. Some favourites include, in no particular order (and this is music which features a lot of piano, or a synthesised piano sound):
1. Tori Amos (fave)
2. Elton (of course....)
3. Bruce Hornsby
4. Iva Davies (and his work with the ground breaking Fairlight synthesiser - Aussie spelling!)
5. Joe Jackson (just beacuse)
6. Vince Guaraldi Trio (go Schroeder)

That'll do for now......

What, no Donald Fagen ?

Or is it because we look at Steely Dan as a whole, not a guitarist and a keyboard player with a band...

[tomjtx]

Bill Evans

Glen Gould
Rubenstein
Horowitz
Ashkenazy
Porovec
Alicia de la Rocha

[peejay]

What, no Donald Fagen ?

Or is it because we look at Steely Dan as a whole, not a guitarist and a keyboard player with a band...

Oversight on my part, although, as you suggest, the team outshines the individual efforts - notwithstanding Kamakiriad, Nightfly, Morph the Cat.....OK, he's in, and oh, another omission, Rick Davies from Supertramp....a legend, again maybe overshadowed by the success of he band as a whole....

[PhilNYC]

Oscar Peterson is the most amazing jazz pianist, bar none (just my opinion, obviously!).

If you really want to give your stereo a workout, tho, try some Randy Weston...famous for really playing hard on the lowest octave of the piano...

In more popular genres, I also like Billy Joel and Jools Holland (from Squeeze)

[Benway]

Already posted in the fave guitar bit so i'll mix a bit in here.

Pat Metheny's album "Secret Story" has a great bit of piano and bass in the middle of "Finding and Believing" that just fits so right. For me its crank it up and wait for the rush. Have no idea whose playing as the album's artist list runs to 17 artists, 2 orchestras, a choir and others !

[totoro]

Bill Evans

Glen Gould
Rubenstein
Horowitz
Ashkenazy
Porovec
Alicia de la Rocha

Agree with all of those

I'd add
Andras Schiff

for harpsichord
Ton Koopman
Christophe Rousset
Kenneth Gilbert

for jazz, I'd add
Geri Allen
Fred Hersch
Elmo Hope
Thelonious Monk
Bud Powell
Oscar Peterson
Vijay Iyer

[PhilNYC]

btw - if we're listing non-piano players, I need to mention Jimmy Smith as the ultimate Hammond organ player...

[tomjtx]

Already posted in the fave guitar bit so i'll mix a bit in here.

Pat Metheny's album "Secret Story" has a great bit of piano and bass in the middle of "Finding and Believing" that just fits so right. For me its crank it up and wait for the rush. Have no idea whose playing as the album's artist list runs to 17 artists, 2 orchestras, a choir and others !

Lyle Mays is the usual pianist for Metheny. When Lyle was a student at UNT his arrangements got the 1 o'clock lab band a Grammy nomination.
Lyle is one of te best jazz pianists around.