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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOkay, how about the best keyboardist?
I'll start off with a little Jelly Roll:
Now, who do you all like best at tickling the ivories?
-- Mal
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Okay, how about the best keyboardist? (Original Post)
malthaussen
Mar 2017
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. No contest. Glenn Gould!
I might also nominate Sviatoslav Richter...
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)2. Easy one, Kyle Hollingsworth
From String Cheese Incident
GWC58
(2,678 posts)3. This might not be what you had in mind, but
I've always been partial to the late Keith Emerson.
Nac Mac Feegle
(969 posts)5. I thought of Keith, too
And Rick Wakeman,
lastlib
(23,204 posts)6. Keith Emerson. Period. End of discussion.
Behind him, Rick Wakeman and Elton John. No others need apply.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)7. I saw ELP in 1977 @ the then
Baltimore Civic Center. They were fantastic!👍 Carl Palmer was not too shabby on percussion, either.
Mendocino
(7,486 posts)4. Art Tatum
One night in NYC, Fats Waller a great keyboardist himself, was performing in a club. In came Art Tatum. Waller stopped and said " I'm just a piano player, but God is in the house now."
Metsie Casey
(208 posts)8. I agree
Keith Emerson. Rip
Metsie Casey
(208 posts)9. Brent Mydland from the grateful dead too. And..
Bruce Hornsby