[DavidMahler]

When listing your 10 favorite Jazz pianists, please leave out composition as a reason for including the pianist.......For instance, Duke Ellington may be amongst your favorite pianists, or maybe not, but don't allow his immense contribution to the history of Jazz composition cause you to automatically include him.

Some of you will be inclined to name 20 or 25, but please limit your list to 10. Feel free to rank though you by no means have to.

Enjoy

 

[wuwhere]

Not in order. Some of my favs:

Bill Evans
Gene Harris
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Joe Sample
André Previn
Oscar Peterson

 

[jazznap]

Not in any order.

Bill Evans
Jessica Williams
Cecil Taylor
Chick Corea
Thelonious Monk
Keith Jarrett
Bugge Wesseltoft
Ran Blake
Wayne Horvitz
Matthew Shipp

Also, it is hard to limit to just 10; sorry Herbie, Mal, Marilyn, Enrico, and many other who didn't make the cut)

 

[DavidMahler]

my top 10 would be.....

10. Herbie Hancock
9. Phineas Newborn
8. McCoy Tyner
7. Lennie Tristano
6. Bud Powell
5. Art Tatum
4. Chick Corea
3. Oscar Peterson
2. Bill Evans
1. Keith Jarrett


bubbling under....... Earl "Fatha" Hines, Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor and Wynton Kelly

 

[Csericks]

No Duke Ellington or Count Basie?

 

[T.IIZUKA]

My Favorite list;

1.Blossom Dearie
2.Thelonious Monk
2.Bud Powell
4.Bill Evans
5.Toshiko AKIYOSHI

 

[tru blu]

Thelonious Monk
Tommy Flanagan
Cecil Taylor
Nat Cole
Herbie Hancock
Phineas Newborn, Jr.
Abdullah Ibrahim
Cedar Walton
Jaki Byard
Sun Ra


…Geri Allen, McCoy, Fats Waller, Jessica Williams, Duke…

 

[krmathis]

Norah Jones
Diana Krall
Tord Gustavsen
Herbie Hancock
Oscar Peterson
Chick Corea
Ray Charles
Duke Ellington
Nat King Cole
Bill Evans

 

[musicmind]

Ahmad Jamal
Hank Jones
Oscar Peterson
Bill Evans
Count Basie
Dudley Moore
Sonny Clark
Art Tatum
McCoy Tyner
Tommy Flannigan
Nat King Cole

 

[catachresis]

Thelonious Monk
Bill Evans
Ahmad Jamal
Bud Powell
Blossom Dearie
Art Tatum
Duke Ellington
Brad Mehldau
Michael Wollny
Herbie Hancock
John Taylor
Chick Corea

. . . is twelve, I think.

 

[Oteil]

1.Chick Corea
2.Herbie Hancock
3.Wynton Kelly
4.Marcus Roberts
5.Oscar Peterson
6.Keith Jarrett
7.Brad Mehldau
8.Thelonious Monk
9.McCoy Tyner
10.Michele Camillo
11.Aaron Parks