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    Posted: January 09 2015 at 16:40
Here's my favorite Jazz Pianists (el piano included). Couldn't offer you an "other" option as I needed all 25 poll choices for myself. But if you have an other, please do tell me.

If you know very few of these I envy you all those hundreds of hours with fantastic music you now can look forward to discover.  Reccomended listening (some titles are with other main artists/bands/ensembles, but google will figure it out for you): 

Mal Waldron
 
Up Popped the Devil, First Encounter, Black Glory, Free at Last, The Call, Number Nineteen, The Quest, The Whirling Dervish

Andrew Hill

Compulsion!!!!, One for One, Judgment!, Point of Departure, Dialogue, Passing Ships, Black Fire, Blue Black
Herbie Hancock

Inventions & Dimensions, Empyrean Isles, Crossings, The Jewel in the Lotus, Search for the New Land, Oblique

McCoy Tyner

Time for Tyner, Asante, Extensions, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Sama Layuca, Expansions

Paul Bley

Footloose, Touching, In Haarlem, Ballads, Paul Bley With Gary Peacock
Ahmad Jamal

Extensions, The Awakening, Jamal Plays Jamal, Freeflight, But Not for Me: Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Pershing

Bill Evans

Sunday at the Village Vanguard, You Must Believe in Spring, Explorations, Bill Evans at Town Hall, Volume One, What's New

Sun Ra

Secrets of the Sun, Angels and Demons at Play, The Magic City, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

Cecil Taylor

Looking Ahead!, The World of Cecil Taylor, Jazz Advance, Into the Hot, Jumpin' Punkins

Bobo Stenson

Underwear, Witchi-Tai-To, Sart, Terje Rypdal, One Long String

Stanley Cowell

Members, Don't Git Weary, Patterns, Medina, Live at Slugs', Volume 1, Why Not
Horace Silver

Finger Poppin' With the Horace Silver Quintet, Song for My Father, The Tokyo Blues, The Cape Verdean Blues, The Jody Grind

Joachim Kühn

Bold Music, Interchange, Smoke, Cinemascope, Mama Kuku, Prime Time

Hugh Lawson 

The Complete Yusef Lateef, Jazz 'Round the World, Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°, Prime Time, The Free Slave

Chick Corea

Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, Big Fun, The Philosophy of the Spiritual, Return to Forever, Laws' Cause, Monday Night at The Village Gate

Duke Pearson

The Phantom, Electric Byrd, "Wahoo!", Kofi, Idle Moments
Gil Evans

The Individualism of Gil Evans, Out of the Cool, Gil Evans & Ten, Blues in Orbit, Trance

Steve Kuhn

Basra, The October Suite, Three Waves, Childhood Is Forever, Sound Pieces

Jan Johansson

Jazz på svenska, In pleno, Musik genom fyra sekler med Jan Johansson

John Lewis

Modern Jazz Quartet Vol. 2, Fontessa, Third Stream Music, Improvised Meditations & Excursions, Pyramid

Michael Garrick

Moonscape, The Heart Is a Lotus, Prelude to the Heart is a Lotus

Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim

African Space Program, Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio, The Dream: Live in Copenhagen, Banyana

Krzysztof Komeda

Astigmatic, Rosemary's Baby, Cul De Sac, Knife in the Water
 
Masabumi Kikuchi

One Way Traveller, In Concert, Hollow Out
Svein Finnerud

Preachers - The Unreleased Works 1969 to 1980, Svein Finnerud Trio, Plastic Sun, Thoughts

Bayeté/Todd Cohran

Head On, Love, Love, Worlds Around the Sun


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Chick, Herbie, and Sun Ra all take the cake for me.

Either Hancock or Ra get to eat it, but I'll have to think over which one of the two does.
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McCoy for me.
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Mccoy is a demigod. One of the few legends of jazz still alive. Ah and a vote for Joachim Kuhn. A nice surprise. 

Albums chosen are based on personal preferences and to some extent where their playing shines the most. Many of the giants could easily have a handful of titles more warmly recommended but I had to stop somewhere. 
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From your list, Joachim Kuhn, a truly phenomenal musician, who has been around a while, and weathered a variety of approaches to the art. My favorite recordings with him are Hip Elegy, with Jean luc Ponty in Open Strings, Mama Kuku, and Easy To Read. A versatile and tasteful player.

           My all time favourite is the late, great, Kristian Schultze (RIP), best known as keyboardist for jazz/jazz-rock band Passport, previously with the brilliant Kristian Schultze Set, and subsequently with the  CCC (Curt Cress Clan) and Snowball. His later work in Cusco and further solo albums don't really qualify him here, though.
        Schultze had that perfect knack for wedding impressive technique with intense emotion in his playing. Every time I hear him play, it is like a breath of fresh air! Suffice it to say his art will live on as long as I and his other fans are around to have the pleasure of hearing it!


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Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Chick, Herbie, and Sun Ra all take the cake for me.

Either Hancock or Ra get to eat it, but I'll have to think over which one of the two does.
If virtuosity alone were to decide I guess it would have been a no-brainer? Btw: If you haven't already you should check out Mccoy Tyner post-Coltrane releases. 
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^ I'll certainly look at more from McCoy.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Mccoy is a demigod. One of the few legends of jazz still alive.
I recently met an engineer who recorded a few albums with McCoy. One of my close friends is actually recording an album with him. The engineer, not McCoy that is. It seems really unremarkable in print, but it felt like an event.


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Sadly the greatest jazz pianist did not make the list, Art Tatum.
 
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^Not the best for me I'm afraid. Heard him mostly on Sidney Bechet records (which I love) and with Ben Webster. A lot of pre late 50's jazz fails to engage me. I'm just bored. Bird, Dizzy, Monk even early Miles - its just something about it that doesn't click. Love a lot of music from the 30's actually, but perhaps not so much because of the jazz of the era.



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Even the few of these I actually know all are very different styled players, it's hard to say who's better.  But I kinda dig Cecil Taylor's avant style so I'm voting for him.
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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2015 at 19:22
Hard for me not to vote for McCoy Tyner, despite love for some other guys like Herbie and Bill Evans.

Have not heard a bunch of these musicians, once again you have rendered an invaluable service.  Tongue
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Reminding a Moshkito's great suggestion in other thread, I think that Keith Jarret deserves to be in this list, that I can only guess it's a great one btw, because Jazz is an almost new music for me to dig into, sincerely.  

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Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:


Reminding a Moshkito's great suggestion in other thread, I think that Keith Jarret deserves to be in this list, that I can only guess it's a great one btw, because Jazz is an almost new music for me to dig into, sincerely.  


Keith Jarrett is my least favorite jazz pianist. Can't listen to him at all.
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Thelonious Monk, who is not on this list.
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Of the ones I've heard (and there was not a lot of them), McCoy, but with that said, I'm not voting.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Thelonious Monk, who is not on this list.

Yes I've got plenty of obvious names missing. I'm afraid all my favorites peaked somewhere in-between a fifteen year span of ca. 1958-1973. Its mainly Postbop/Modal/Free&Avantgarde Jazz+early Fusion that does the trick for me. Maybe I should have specified.
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You threw some John Coltrane albums in the McCoy Tyner section

McCoy Tyner

Time for Tyner, Asante, Extensions, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Sama Layuca, Expansions

Love many of these. Toss up for Tyner, Hancock and Sun Ra for me
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I loved the Individualism of Gil Evans
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