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Jazz piano is the use of an acoustic piano or electric piano as an improvising, comping or leading instrument in a jazz group/jazz fusion ensemble or as a solo instrument. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. The instrument...
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus, Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism.
Mingus is considered one of the most important composers and performers of jazz...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1922
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1979 (age 56 years)
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1920 (age 89 years)
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar.
He wrote most of his vocal and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1898
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 1937 (age 38 years)
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Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr. (born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.; September 11, 1967) is an American singer, actor, composer, and pianist. Connick has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, O.Ont. (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty. He...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1925
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 2007 (age 82 years)
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Romano Mussolini
Romano Mussolini (September 26, 1927 - February 3, 2006) was the third and youngest son of Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Romano was never involved in politics, but rather was a well-appreciated jazz pianist, painter,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1927
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 2006 (age 78 years)
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the ...
Date of birth:
- 1867
Date of death:
- Apr 1, 1917 (age 50 years)
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist and composer. He is regarded not only as one of the greatest living jazz musicians, but also as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. His music...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1940 (age 69 years)
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.
Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1899
Date of death:
- May 24, 1974 (age 75 years)
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Vince Guaraldi
Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an Italian American jazz musician, and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1928
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1976 (age 47 years)
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Billy Joel
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel; May 9, 1949) is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1935
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2002 (age 66 years)
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 - December 15, 1943) born Thomas Wright Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. He was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Reverend Edward Martin...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1904
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1943 (age 39 years)
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Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1904
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1984 (age 79 years)
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer who, according to The Penguin Guide to Jazz, was "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1917
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1982 (age 64 years)
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra (birth name: Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; (b. May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1914
Date of death:
- May 30, 1993 (age 79 years)
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Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of French and Armenian descent.
Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores and several musicals and has made...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1932 (age 77 years)
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg, September 13, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who is best- known as organizer and leader of The Ray Charles Singers. The Ray Charles...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1930
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 2004 (age 73 years)
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Art Tatum
Arthur "Art" Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso. He was nearly blind.
Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Tatum's quick...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1909
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1956 (age 47 years)
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Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966 in New York City) was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1924
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1966 (age 41 years)
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Bill Evans
William John Evans (better known as Bill Evans) (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, ...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1929
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1980 (age 51 years)
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Tete Montoliu
Tete Montoliu (March 28, 1933–August 24, 1997) was a jazz pianist from Catalonia, Spain. His real name was Vicenç Montoliu i Massana.
He was born blind, in the Eixample district of Barcelona, and died in the same city. He was the only son of Vicenç...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1933
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1997 (age 64 years)
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J. Russell Robinson
Joseph Russel(l) Robinson (July 8, 1892 – September 30, 1963) was a United States ragtime and dixieland jazz pianist and a composer of jazz, blues, and popular tunes.
Robinson, whose name appeared as "J. Russel Robinson", was born in Indianapolis,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1892
Date of death:
- Sep 30, 1963 (age 71 years)
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Steve Lewis
Steve Lewis (March 19, 1896 - c 1941?) was a jazz pianist and composer.
Lewis was born in New Orleans. He was influenced by the piano stylings of Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton, and became the primer pianist in Storyville after those two older...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1896
Date of death:
- 1941 (age 44 years)
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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), "Georgia On My Mind," and "Heart and Soul", three of the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1899
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1981 (age 82 years)
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1929 (age 80 years)
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John Mehegan
John Mehegan (June 6, 1916 – April 3, 1984) was a jazz pianist, lecturer and critic. Mehegan was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and began playing the piano at the age of five. He taught himself to play by matching his fingers to the notes played...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1916
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1984 (age 67 years)
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John Taylor
John Taylor (born in Manchester 25 September 1942) is a British jazz pianist; he has occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer. He is one of Europe's most celebrated jazz pianists and composers.
John Taylor first came to the attention...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval (born November 6, 1949) is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.
Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally...
Date of birth:
- Nov 6, 1949 (age 60 years)
Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress. She is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar, and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar. Her career began with her 2002 debut album Come...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1979 (age 30 years)
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- 2001
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer, and jazz icon.
His career started with Art Blakey, soon moving on to play with Charles Lloyd then Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1945 (age 64 years)
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James P. Johnson
James Price Johnson [also known as Jimmy Johnson] (February 1, 1894–November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was one of the originators of the stride style of jazz piano playing.
Johnson was born on...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1894
Date of death:
- Nov 17, 1955 (age 61 years)
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Dink Johnson
Ollie "Dink" Johnson (October 28, 1892 – November 29, 1954) was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.
Dink Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1892
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1954 (age 62 years)
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong (February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s.
Hardin's compositions...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1971 (age 73 years)
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Silver is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1928 (age 81 years)
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Kenny Drew
Kenneth Sidney (Kenny) Drew (August 28, 1928–August 4, 1993) was an American jazz pianist.
Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1928
Date of death:
- Aug 4, 1993 (age 64 years)
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1910
Date of death:
- May 28, 1981 (age 71 years)
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Tadd Dameron
Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the ...
Date of birth:
- Feb 21, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1965 (age 48 years)
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Hazel Scott
Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer.
She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in New York City from the age of four. She performed extensively on piano as a child,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1920
Date of death:
- Oct 2, 1981 (age 61 years)
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Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and drummer.
Cullum was born at Rochford Hospital in Romford, Essex. He was brought up in Hullavington, Wiltshire, and educated at the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1979 (age 30 years)
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Bob Brookmeyer
Robert Brookmeyer (born December 19, 1929) is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, and arranger.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957. He...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1929 (age 80 years)
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Dodo Marmarosa
Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa (December 12, 1925 – September 17, 2002) was an American bebop pianist.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a child prodigy, Marmarosa was a trained classical pianist, but familiarised himself with jazz in parallel and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1925
Date of death:
- Sep 17, 2002 (age 76 years)
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Walter Norris
Walter Norris (born December 27, 1931) is a pianist known primarily for his work inside the free jazz community.
His playing is generally considered distinctive and uncategorizable. He played with Ornette Coleman, Charlie Mingus and the Thad Jones...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1931 (age 78 years)
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior (born January 17, 1934) is an American hard bop jazz pianist.
Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. After attending the University of Denver, Walton moved to New York in 1955. After a two year stint in the army in which he...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1934 (age 76 years)
Place Musical Career Began:
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro – December 8, 1994 in New York), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. A primary...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1927
Date of death:
- Dec 8, 1994 (age 67 years)
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Luckey Roberts
Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts (7 August 1887 – 5 February 1968) was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles.
Luckey Roberts was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was playing...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1887
Date of death:
- Feb 5, 1968 (age 80 years)
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Sonny Clark
Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American hard bop pianist. An underappreciated jazz artist during his time, Clark's work has become much more widely known after his death. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1931
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1963 (age 31 years)
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Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.
He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion. He participated in the birth of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 12, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Joe Zawinul
Josef Erich Zawinul (July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.
First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1932
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 2007 (age 75 years)
Michel Petrucciani
Michel Petrucciani (December 28, 1962; Orange, France – January 6, 1999; New York City, USA) was a French jazz pianist.
Michel Petrucciani came from an Italo-French family with a musical background. His father Tony played guitar, his brother Louis...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1962
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1999 (age 36 years)
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Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist, composer and bandleader.
Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown.
He was strongly attracted...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1960 (age 49 years)
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George Duke
George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California) is a piano and synthesizer pioneer and singer. He made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He is known for his solo work as well as...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1946 (age 64 years)
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Albert Ammons
Albert Ammons (September 23, 1907 — December 2, 1949) was an American pianist. Ammons was a player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s.
Born Albert C. Ammons in Chicago, Illinois,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1907
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1949 (age 42 years)
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson (March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American jazz pianist.
The journalist, Tony Russell, stated in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, that "Johnson shared with the other members of the 'Boogie Woogie Trio' the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1904
Date of death:
- Mar 23, 1967 (age 63 years)
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Luis Russell
Luis Russell (6 August 1902 - 11 December 1963) was a jazz pianist and bandleader .
Luis Carl Russell was born on Careening Cay, near Bocas del Toro, Panama, in a family of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. His father was a music teacher, and young Luis...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1902
Date of death:
- Dec 11, 1963 (age 61 years)
Willie "The Lion" Smith
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (23 November 1893 – 18 April 1973), aka "The Lion", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson, and Thomas "Fats" Waller as the 3...
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1893
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1973 (age 79 years)
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Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 - 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist who performed in both the classical and jazz fields.
Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1930
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2000 (age 69 years)
Gil Evans
Gil Evans (13 May 1912 in Toronto, Canada – 20 March 1988 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and...
Date of birth:
- May 13, 1912
Date of death:
- Mar 20, 1988 (age 75 years)
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams (born September 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the Modern Creative and Free jazz mediums. Abrams compresses both contemporary...
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1930 (age 79 years)
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Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals.
In 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out, which she recorded with John Clayton and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 16, 1964 (age 45 years)
