Beautiful Piano Prog? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Icarium wrote:

Rick Davis side of Supertramp and some of Rodgers supertramp tracks is full of grand piano. Some melodic but also Rick could do intricate things as well. The solo on Child of Vision is genious.

Well, there are times when a 'simple' piano collaboration is even more outstanding than that, taking the song to another level. One example of that is Sabbath's Air Dance, Don Airey's flat out magic touch on that song definitely helped making it as enjoyable as most of the Supertramp tracks, let alone it is undoubtedly a pretty more rocking tune imb....

The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories...

Already mentioned, but I go with Iamthemorning and Renaissance.

Good songs with very little technical ability, though very melodic, emotional/moving?

micky wrote:

Tillerman88 wrote:

I go with something probably new to people here but sure more "progressive" and that really smokes so many piano 'prog' when it comes to elegant and beautiful piano music. I'm talking about Billy Joel, his album "Fantasies & Delusions" is sheer brilliance.

well you got me there....not many can do that but showing my age in saying Billy Joel lost me after Glass houses... the first album I smoked dope to in fact. Downhill after that.. for him..and for me hahah

I haven't heard that one.

Give it a try man, sure you'll gimme plus one o'respect point for it haha , but I'd say that listening to that album won't enhance dope smoking nor make it any better, neither vice versa ;)

As for the other Billy Joel's works, there are a bunch of songs on his post Glass Houses releases that I really care for, particularly their live performances.

Edited by Tillerman88 - April 21 2018 at 14:56

The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories...

These are my very favorites:

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

CICADA (Taiwanese / Jesey Chiang)

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (soundtrack artist)

PSYCHIC TRAVELLER

GLEB KOLYADIN / IAMTHEMORNING

EYOT

Also worthy of checking out:

DUNGEN

UNAKA PRONG

TORI AMOS

SVETAMUZIKA

MANEIGE

KOTEBEL

KATE BUSH

IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE

HIROMI UEHARA

DAVID MINASIAN

SUNWRAE

SETNA

POLLEN

MICE ON STILTS

CIRRUS BAY

CHICK COREA

BLUE NILE

BENT KNEE

AMPLEDEED

AMOEBA SPLIT

AFTER CRYING

ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI

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dr wu23 wrote:

The first thing related to prog that came to mind was the beautiful piano in Take A Pebble...ELP....but perhaps that's far too famous for your tastes.

Actually, I would go check Rachel Flowers and appreciate the piano and organ versions she has of a lot of ELP and Keith's work.

It defines what MUSIC is really all about that so many rock fans (progressive included!) can not and do not appreciate, and worse ... they won't listen to it, because it is not electrified or noise'ified.

I don't mind your question, but even Rick Wakeman has done acoustic piano versions of his material and other folks' material ... and I think that it is possible that you are walking a fine line to not appreciating a lot of music simply because it doesn't have "beautiful piano". Things like Banco, and many Italian bands (specially) have outstanding classically sounding material and use a piano, very differently than how we think and expect due to the top of the pops styles that we're used to hearing all the time!

Other than that ... for you there's always Elton John, right?

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Tillerman88 wrote:

Icarium wrote:

Rick Davis side of Supertramp and some of Rodgers supertramp tracks is full of grand piano. Some melodic but also Rick could do intricate things as well. The solo on Child of Vision is genious.

Well, there are times when a 'simple' piano collaboration is even more outstanding than that, taking the song to another level. One example of that is Sabbath's Air Dance, Don Airey's flat out magic touch on that song definitely helped making it as enjoyable as most of the Supertramp tracks, let alone it is undoubtedly a pretty more rocking tune imb....

I think Rick Davies of Supertramp might be my very favorite. He has such great taste, and in the studio, never plays an extra note, leaves space. Though it's very simple, the piano solo on "School" is a great one. Funny thing is, each guy play their best solos on the OTHER guys' song (Hodgson's guitar solo on "Waiting so Long"). Child of Vision is amazing, too.. I think the Am-F riff on "Crime of the Century" might be the best ever, even though it took 30 seconds to figure it out.

Another thing that sometimes gets lost are the chords. "Just a Normal Day" would be one example, but also how they fit together.

^ Indeed. Fragile was my first Yes album, and at first it was somewhat difficult to understand. That piano part was one of the hooks that kept me listening to the album over and over again until I finally clicked and became one of my favourite albums up until now.