[citation needed] Later, she composed NHK's official support song on the occasion of the first anniversary of the earthquake entitled "Hana wa Saku" ("Flowers Will Bloom") featuring lyrics by Sendai film director Shunji Iwai. The omission of Marian McPartland is criminal. Its common in anime for characters to use fictional weapons in their fights, but Cowboy Bebop has an unusual appreciation for real-world hardware. 6. 1-Thelonious Monk I think its on of the first lists that is pretty good..I play and little piano and guitar and fancy myself as fairly knowledgeable in guitar, bass and drumsMaybe I know just enough to get into troubleno one can ever agree on any listever. From 1937 to 1944, Gillespie performed with prominent swing bands, including those of Benny Carter and Charlie Barnet. No list is complete without Vince Guaraldi, Monty Alexander, John Beasley and Nat King Cole. The top 10 is MINT.JIMMY SMITH is a HUGE oversight, though. I am glad that The Count and the Duke are in the top. And note Erroll looked and sounded like he was having the time of his life-tragically died too young from lung cacer at 55yrs. 'instead of being a workaholic salaried man working for his company. Where is Horace Parlan? Richie Beirach??? The absence of Brad Mehldau is unforgivable I checked like 10 times to be sure I didnt just miss him. Both Teddy W and Earl Hines felt he was their equal, and both are rightfully on this list. Just below these, in the very next level of sensitivity and deepness, Id place Fred Hersch, Ahmad Jamal, Michel Petrucciani and Marian McPartland. Unfortunately, there was a musicians strike which prevented all 1: Earl Hines. 2. No need to cite examples. , viewers are treated to the following image. Love him, Underrated: Wynton Kelly and Red Garlandand where is Cedar Walton? Just as the boundaries of jazz were pushed by the bebop revolution, Gillespies lyrics to the song are equally as provocative. , And the list has 36 pianists because there are 36 black keys on the piano? The late PAT LUDWIG from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. After Tatum , Monk and Evans its hard to set a pecking order, but the author needs to listen to Newborn; he was way ahead of many of the contemporaries listed. 5. That marks nearly 18 years of Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim. One of the reasons people believe Bebop was a break with the past is due to an accident of history. Bud Powell intended). Clares vocal arrangements were unique, beginning with the Hi-Los. A former staff writer for TUAW, he's knowledgeable on all things Apple and Android. Sadly, Clark was a heroin addict and died, aged 31, from a suspected (but never proven) overdose. Here is just a sampling of his work and there is much more on youtube. Herbie Hancock As a composer, Monk contributed several standards to the jazz songbook including Round Midnight and Straight, No Chaser and, as a keyboardist, recorded several albums of unaccompanied piano, including the classic Thelonious Alone In San Francisco. Here is a sample of the boogie woogie specialist: She once said that this is a way she likes to work, for she does not have to deal with rules during composing. Gil Evans? Miles Davis, at 22, was already bored by bop and wanted to try his hand at something else. Sadly, his life was blighted by drug addiction, which hastened his premature death at the age of 43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAKOt4G7kLg&list=OLAK5uy_k7M-0PcT5vtPSusxNDlUYOkkVOJEwZ5vM&index=3, Another good blues!! In short, I suggest you might devise a poll based on categories such as as harmonic creativity, melodic creativity, originality, interpretation, composition and form building, playing technique, influence on other musicians etc etc. A jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played with Charlie Parker and developed the music known as "bebop." Yes! There is an alternative top 100 list over at Ranker.com. But bebop or rebop, as it was also known for a time wasnt to everyones taste. I always find strong opinions some kind of ridiculous, and mostly I dont want to join in the battle of all the experts (I am, because my opinions are soooo different). Unparalled accompanying for horns and singers They would pick a standard song like I Got Rhythm, but play it incredibly fast, using complex chord substitutions, and transpose the song up one semitone after every repeat. Gospel music left an indelible mark on Timmons and its DNA can be detected in his playing and much of the music he wrote, which included the classic tunes Moanin, This Here, and Dat Dere, which earned him his place among the best jazz pianists for laying the blueprint for what became known as soul jazz in the late 50s and early 60s. He also experimented with multi-tracking recording in the early 50s which most jazz musicians considered anathema by overdubbing improvised piano parts. Check out Brads second half solo in UNION DUES BLUES. Anyone who studies this music from that era cannot help but marvel at the way he played, always swinging, always melodic, always new. Come on. As a teenager, Jarrett was seduced by jazz and quickly became fluent in its idiom. Piano has so many fantastic players that for me I have a huge amount of favorites. Where is the eminent outstanding master of jazz Cedar Walton? Kenny Barron-Mal Waldron-Dick Hyman -Alan Broadbent-Jess StacyMarian McPartland Mehldaus long-running piano trio has also continually broken new ground with its near-telepathic collective improvisation and eclectic repertoire. Years later, in his autobiography, Gillespie wrote that hed always had that Latin feeling that even his early tunes sounded Latin. Updates? Oh, come on! Greatest how; for what? Pittsburgh-born Jamal possesses a delicate, nimble touch and intuitively knows how to use space to good effect. Havent heard her? He also recorded a slew of solo albums, all of which highlighted his glistening, horn-like right-hand melodies and penchant for block chordal accompaniment. Bebop took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed on them additional substituted chords. He started as an orthodox stride-style player but soon introduced innovations. 29 Scott Joplin Hell, he was playing the most complex chords and rhythmns long before self-described experts got around to giving them names. A great list, but as many people already said, loads of pretty good pianists are missing! And cant believe you didnt include Ellis Larkins aka Mr. Feather Fingers. There are a few names missing on your list, such as Vince Guaraldi, Russ Freeman, Dudley Moore, Egberto Gismonti, Claude Bolling; each of these have special talents that deserve mention. Jets ship, the Bebop, is more than just a home and mode of transportation for our heroes. Kannos scoring work in anime isnt limited just to jazz, however. He was one of the oldest but also one of the best! He also began working with musical greats such as Fitzgerald, Earl Hines, Jimmy Dorsey and Parker around this time. After Coltrane, Tyner established himself as one of contemporary jazzs pre-eminent pianists with a series of astounding albums for Blue Note and, later, Milestone. No Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson? 2-Bill Evans Wild Horses also contains a hidden Babe Ruth Easter egg in the form of its villains. The best of all Jazz Pianist ist Keith Jarrett! He recorded for Blue Note, Prestige, and Pacific Jazz in the 50s. And quite frankly I tire of patterns that a few of the persons above play over and over and over and over regardless of how technically difficult they are to execute. He had a tendency to drink to excess, and a formidable knack for getting into trouble. In 1945 he was beaten senseless by the Philadelphia police, an attack whose savagery left him with mental problems that dogged him for the rest of his all-too-brief life; he died in 1966, a couple of months short of his 42nd birthday. He became immediately recognizable from the unusual shape of his trumpet, with the bell tilted upward at a 45-degree anglethe result of someone accidentally sitting on it in 1953, but to good effect, for when he played it afterward, he discovered that its new shape improved the instrument's sound quality, and he had it incorporated into all his trumpets thereafter. I guess you are glad that MICHEL PETRUCCIANI is on the list. 18 Tommy Flanagan Other than that, might as well throw darts. That is a strange number? After leaving Miles Davis in 58, Miles called him back for a truly innovative recording: the result was Kind of Blue, the most successful jazz album of all time (artistically and commerciallystill among the top sellers in jazz). I think that an even 100 would be even better. I am impressed that Art Tatum is number one ( no argument here ), and that Fats Waller and James P. Johnson made the lst, although they should both be much higher. JOHN BALLYANTYNE!! The music of Charlie Parker and me laid a foundation for all the music that is being played now. I have no use for the percussive style virtually devoid of dynamics that many exhibit. 35 Dave Grusin. Come the frig ON! by The Associated Press | Today at 9:10 a.m. His block chords would make Dave Brubeck proud!! Hazel Scott Herbie and Bud too low. Hank Jones much, much higherand Im the biggest Basie fan you can imagine, but dont believe as a PLAYER he rates with players who were or are featured in trios and quartetsas some have said, Mary Lou Williams should be in here. He also often attacks the piano with brute force, though he can also play with extreme delicacy, employing staccato right-hand runs. A prodigiously talented musician, Williams was an inspirational figure and paved the way for noted contemporary female pianists such as Tania Maria, the late Geri Allen, Eliane Elias, and Diana Krall. Outside of his band, Lewis made many albums under his own name, the earliest in 1955. Extraordinarily versatile, and a composer/arranger as well as a piano player. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGt8vcGsYfk&list=OLAK5uy_k7M-0PcT5vtPSusxNDlUYOkkVOJEwZ5vM&index=7. His Commodore recordings are one of the great pinnacles of jazz. Hes Mozart of Jazz Piano! Fats Waller Earl Hines Erroll Garner 17 ?????? . This is why Im against lists or tallys of who are the greatest this or that . Groovin' High is a 1955 compilation album of studio sessions by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. J.P. Johnson? But Art definitely deserves to be number one. Next thing someone is going to put Kenny G in the same category as Steve Lacey and Dave Liebman for best Jazz soprano sax !? Bill Charlap deserves recognition. He gave (and still gives me) the largest goose bumps. During Cowboy Bebops initial run on Tokyo TV, only 12 episodes aired due to violations of broadcast standards. The Big Apple certainly didnt know what hit it when Charlie Parker blew into town like a tornado and shook the jazz scene to its very core. At that time, I think of the plot in my brain, when the characters' nameseverything about the charactershas not been decided yet. Maybe others should be on the list, and maybe the order should be rearranged, but one thing you got for sure Art Tatum absolute #1! He is a genius and should be the first among the greatest. Have you ever heard Mack the knife by Nina Riche? From Dallas, Texas, as a child this hard bop piano giant was raised on a diet of Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk. Sometimes I think Garner was not human. By 13, he was playing professionally, and at 18 recorded the first of many LPs. An intrepid improviser whose imagination knows no bounds. It should be noted also that Mr. Parker listened to Art Tatum, which could be argued as a pre-bop aspect of the altoists influence, as well, but Lester was the main man. I do have some issues with some on list but the top 5 ( in a different order ) is very good but is debateable in some people. When he was older, he was smitten by jazz and fell under the spell of modernists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Phineas Newborn is not here.This is total crap.This is posted by some Johnny come Lately. Finally, while I absolutely love Monk, I cant see him at #2. and Monk was a great composer but a rather lousy pianist. Let It Snow! Keith Jarrett is fantastic pianist, but Chick Corea is most powerfull composer, phenomenal jazz pianist and equal with Herbie Hancock! 31 Michel Petrucciani 12 Fats Waller Horace Silver was the most prominent pianist, composer, and bandleader in this period. He spent two years with Charles Mingus, as well as working with Eric Dolphy and Roland Kirk. Though influenced by Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum, Hill forged his own distinctive and complex style, both as a pianist and composer. Though influenced by Bill Evans, Hancock forged his own style in the 60s, both as a solo artist and as a member of Miles Davis pathfinding post-bop quintet. ! Whats the reason for his omission. Would also have included Bobby Timmons, Marian McPartland, Mary Lou Williams, Dick Hyman, Bill Charlap. Influenced by Bud Powell and noted for his horn-like right-hand melodies, Clark was a sideman for Dinah Washington, Sonny Rollins, and Charles Mingus, and also enjoyed a fecund five-year spell at Blue Note Records, where he served up nine albums, including the classic hard bop manifesto Cool Struttin. She was the lead member of the project band called Seatbelts, which regrouped in the year of 2004 to compose the soundtrack of the PlayStation 2 Cowboy Bebop video game, released in Japan in 2005. As one of the great Monk fans of all-time, owning every single one of his recordings (okay not the very latest film music release yet, but until then) having an all-Monk ensemble in college that I arranged 35 of his comps for, and my primary influence as a jazz pianist, to rank him #2 jazz pianist is crazy. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. For example, in the first verse of the song, Gillespie sings about the culture of jazz clubs, and infers that where bebop was playing, the (mostly Black) audiences were pushing societal expectations by letting loose, and demonstrating sexual prowess. Diana Krall is a great singer but just a slightly above average jazz pianist. Good cases could be made for John Lewis, James Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Don Pullen , Joe Sample and Muhal Richard Abrams. Though, compared to many of the best jazz pianists, his influences are wide and varied ranging from pop, rock, folk, and classical music, to bebop, country, and even electronic music he has distilled them all into a unique style which is inspired by the lyricism of Bill Evans and spellbinding virtuosic improvisation of Keith Jarrett. If youve ever wondered if there was a hidden message on Fayes capsule, the message is Star Trek.. Lets not argue about who is missing it is impossible to have all names available, but in real terms in matters not a hoot because Bud Powell and Monk are there. Jet and Spike started working together, Fae was taken out of cryofreeze, and Ed wandered away from the orphanageand as a result, we have, The cryogenic chamber Faye finally escapes has the serial number NCC-1701-B. Thelonious Monk As one of the founders of the genre, Gillespie composed the hit songBebopin 1963. Working with lyricist Hal David, Bacharach penned a long run of hit songs, many of them for Dionne Warwick. This would very quickly root out any amateur musicians. Tatums technique was phenomenal. [14], Besides music, Kanno also enjoys photography and writing. (but he IS one of the great interviews, commentators, raps, talkers in the jazz worldand, in the 1960s, helped direct where the music would go.). He joined the Frankie Fairfax Orchestra not long after, and then relocated to New York City, where he performed with Teddy Hill and Edgar Hayes in the late 1930s. WhileGillespie himself was a skilled arranger (successful at creating scores for the rich wall of sound that trumpets, trombones and saxophones offer), bebop somehow manages to make do with less. Eventually, the show found a second life on the satellite channel WOWOW, airing late at night where it couldnt offend delicate sensibilities. :And he used all that harmonic knowledge in his playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa99q-vq4bI&list=OLAK5uy_k7M-0PcT5vtPSusxNDlUYOkkVOJEwZ5vM&index=10, HUNGARIAN GYPSY BLUES!! A nine-time Grammy nominee, Barron has been recording since the late 60s and his many collaborators include fellow pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction. As I said before, LENNIE TRISTANO IS #50!! Bill Evans should be #1. Today, he is considered one of the most influential figures of jazz and bebop. You cant have a list like this and leave off Al Haig!!!! 34 Cecil Taylor They all have their own style. Throughout my musical career my favourite pianists were Wynton Kelley Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. Good list, but please get Bob James the hell off of it and put a great pianist on it. But Japanese don't believe in one God, but in gods everywhere in plants and animals. As to rhythmn, as they say in NY, Forget about it. And to finish: 'Wee' from a celebrated live concert recording in which Powell played with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Max Roach; and a Monk tune, 'Little Rootie Tootie', in a magnificent arrangement for big band. Barrons own career began with sideman stints with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. I highly doubt it that you are the REAL Diana Krall. etc. So by the time Bebop was heard for the first time on record, it had already developed and grown for 2 years. ALSO.. The episodes were eventually aired by the channel. Gillespie's memoirs, entitled To BE or Not to BOP: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie (with Al Fraser), were published in 1979. Debussy, Ravel); he ended as a full-blown expressionist (think Moussoursky, Rachmaninoff)two opposite sides of the same coin of Romantic art. Bill had the biggest, heaviest hands of any pianisthis touch, always deep in the keys, could coax from the most stubborn piano the fullest ppp and fff in closely-voiced harmonies or the most evenly-played rapid runs thanks to minimal body movement and heavy, dead accurate fingers. From ragtime piano came the more sophisticated and virtuosic stride style of James P Johnson and Willie The Lion Smith with its locomotive, two-step, left-hand accompaniment in the 20s and 30s, which in turn led to Fats Waller and ultimately culminated with Art Tatum. I have seen live Count Basie, Duke Ellington with their Bands, Earl Fatha Hines (Solo). Fred Hersch is missing. Yoshikazu Okada wrote the lyrics for the vocal portion, which was performed at the celebration by the idol group, Arashi. Born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Pittsburgh, Williams was a self-taught pianist who rose to fame as a teenage prodigy in the 20s. In the event, Clarke was shipped off to Europe as part of the US contribution to the war effort, and he missed Bebop's explosion onto the scene in 1945. Hailing from Chicago, as a boy Hill earned small change playing accordion on the Windy Citys streets. Jacques Loussier, John Lewis, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Petersen with their groups. Yoko Kanno has become one of Japans foremost composers since she created the eclectic score for the anime series Cowboy Bebop. She returned for Now that i think of it, theres another japanese piano player, but you just have to HAVE her on this list! I love Monk, but respectfully disagree about placing him at #2. One of a multitude of musicians who came through Art Blakeys Hard Bop Academy, The Jazz Messengers, this Philadelphia musician was the son of a preacher and grew up playing in church. where is Alan Broadbent, Milgrew Miller, Brad Mehldau? Way overrated: Chick Corea, Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Absolutely agree with you assessment and Gene Harris deserve a spot. From pull to press, not white and up tight He played as a sideman for Billy Eckstine and Charlie Parker, and was in bluesman Eddie Vinsons band alongside a young John Coltrane. [citation needed], She attended Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002. Bebop Donald Macleod and special guest Geoffrey Smith explore bebop. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Es Lamont Jhonson,Rubalcaba,Phineas Newborn Jr.. Great artists- but I miss Erroll Garner !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This New Jersey pianist helped bridge the transition from ragtime to jazz with his stride piano technique, which built on ragtimes locomotive, see-saw jauntiness but added more sophisticated harmonies and a stronger blues element. The Official Website of American Composer Augusta Read Thomas. This became the blueprint for West Coast cool jazz, which would be popular in the 50s. She is much admired by jazz pianists and the few jazz radio stations that still exist (e. g., KCSM). Network executives decided to cut three episodes from the first two runs on Cartoon Network. These are all all great pianists but there are probably many we never heard of and some who were excluded . Id include Herbie Nichols, Richard Twardzik. 2.- Keith Jarrett It is actually not a bad list. Fast, fast, fast! Dubbed The Marxist Mozart for his espousal of left-wing political causes, Texas-born Theodore Wilson was a virtuosic pianist who gained prominence in the swing era and worked as a sideman with some of the biggest names in jazz, ranging from Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. No Marion McPartland? Jazz was everybodys music, right from the start. Maybe swap with Monk easily qualifies for the top 10! In the United States, the shows initial run was censored due to content; however, several episodes were also cut due to the show premiering the week before the 9/11 attacks. Grusin went on to become a prolific composer of movie scores (among them On Golden Pond and The Fabulous Baker Boys) and has also released a raft of keyboard-oriented studio albums. Before Bebop, if you wanted to improvise, you could get away with knowing little music theory and largely just feeling your way through the song using your ear to find what sounded good. . I was shocked to see Oscar at only #5. Its a great list, but Im willing to bet that every time you poll the same people youd end up with different results. They include Walk On By and Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. No, I dont dig. Lou Donaldson - As well as being available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music, fans of the show can purchase the vinyl of the original score. Have never really understood the Art Tatum worship. Wow -as a Jazz piano lover I could care less about the order, though it might be nice to see a list of living piano players.