Jazz pianist

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (1925-2007) Courtesy William Smith Courtesy Paul Hoeffler Peterson redefined the jazz trio by bringing the musicianship of all three members to the highest level. The trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis was, in his own words, "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances as well as in studio recordings. In the early 1950s, Peterson began performing with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. Shortly afterward the drummer Smith…

Jazz Aesthetic

Review of previously unreleased live album by legendary pianist Bill Evans and his trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette

Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 in Toronto ON – 4 October 1982) Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music. Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster.

Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) was a man of many hats — literally. A look at the covers for some of his most beloved albums — The Unique Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Monk’s Dream, It’s Monk Time, Underground, and, most recently, the long-awaited release of his soundtrack to Roger Vadim’s controversial 1960 French film […]

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Tommy Flanagan & Eldridge,TV-studio Copenhagen 1964

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson (1959). From the collection: Dutch photographers. Date of creation: 1959

Chick Corea (b. June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer - also 71 today! Photo: Richard Laird

Duke Ellington, Paris, Olympia Theatre 1958. Polished Herman Leonard.

Afro-American male jazz musician pianist playing a piano in an abstract cubist style painting. Illustration about nola, traditional, pianist, black, instrumental, cubism - 274758047