Cool...I see we agree on 2 of the fab-five. There are a lot of other awesome keyboard/piano players not making my list. Artists such as: Marcus Johnson, Philippe Saisee, Brian Culbertson, Marcos Ariel, Gregg Karukas, Kim Pencyl, Art Tatum, Brian Simpson, Kevin Toney, David Benoit...just to mention a few.
Yes K. Washington, I love the keyboards,pianos, and organs. If I was ever going to play an instrument, the piano or organ would have been the ones. By the way, Kim Pensyl, I did forget to mention as one of my favorite Fab-five. I love the way, "That's the Way of the World" was instrumentally composed.
I agree. I wished I had learned to play piano but went the trumpet way and then got bored with playing it and I still love horns too, but not enough to pick up the trumpet again. I see I missed spelled Kim Pensyl...sorry...lol
Wynton Kelly
Oscar Peterson
Ray Charles
Ahmad Jamal
Gene Harris
Donny Hathaway
Red Garland
Erroll Garner
James Booker
George Duke
Jimmy Smith
and the list goes on....
Hey Charles. You have a lot of nice keyboard artist listed in here. I see a few of my fab-five favorite artists named in your list. Thanks a lot for sharing some of your favorites with us. Keep it smoothjazz.