Members mbengs1 Posted April 5, 2016 Members Share Posted April 5, 2016 mine is eddie van halen. i like to write keyboards like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted April 5, 2016 Members Share Posted April 5, 2016 Herbie Great jazz piano player, electronic music innovator and funky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 5, 2016 Members Share Posted April 5, 2016 Greg Mathieson comes to mind mostly because I've been practicing over his stuff with Larry Carlton but he is truly a harmonic whiz. (I don't practice with Larry Carlton.) Kenny Baron, Alan Pascua and dozens more for New Old Jazz through fusion. Any of the Gospel Chops hotties. Halfuhdem cain't spell out the chords they play but they sure know how to use 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members moogerfooger Posted April 6, 2016 Members Share Posted April 6, 2016 eddie van halen? really? have you ever listened to any real keyboardists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinkfloydcramer61 Posted April 9, 2016 Members Share Posted April 9, 2016 Nashville studio great Matt Rollings. He's a chameleon. Can play very elegantly or viciously funky. Raucous barrelhouse like nobody's business (Steve Earl's "Snake Oil") and awesome 2-handed interplay on New Orleansy gospel piano ((Lyle Lovett's "Memphis"). For B3 I'm a huge fan of Jon Medeski and really liking Corey Henry too. Piano jazz it's Chick Corea. (added) but 2 players I have tried to emulate the most are Chuck Leavell and Lucky Peterson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members moogerfooger Posted April 11, 2016 Members Share Posted April 11, 2016 Matt is a killer player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members genesisfan Posted April 15, 2016 Members Share Posted April 15, 2016 Tony Banks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WynnD Posted April 15, 2016 Members Share Posted April 15, 2016 I like Lee Michaels at the top of his game. (3rd album recorded with Frosty. Amazing work.) I also like Vincent Crane. Just noticed that they are both Blues keyboardists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted April 16, 2016 Members Share Posted April 16, 2016 Richard Tee is one of my favourites. I saw him and several other members of Stuff play behind Joe Cocker in the early '70s - Joe wasn't in very good shape but the band, including Cornell Dupree, was amazing. You can hear Richard's Rhodes on a lot of Paul Simon records and George Harrison's album 33 1/3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 Depends on the style / genre. Part of me wants to come in here and say Dave Brubeck or Oscar Peterson, and another part wants to say Greg Hawkes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted April 18, 2016 Members Share Posted April 18, 2016 I went to a "Two Generations of Brubeck" concert back in the late '70s. He was an amazing piano player and his son's are very good musicians as well. He looked like a freak from a Dickens novel... ...and he was beaming for the entire show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 I saw them on that same tour at the La Mirada Civic Center. Do you happen to remember who opened the show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 ...and he was beaming for the entire show. I think he was just stoked to be able to tour with and make music with his kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted April 21, 2016 Members Share Posted April 21, 2016 It was in a theatre - nice venue with a really nice piano. It was just them with no opening act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted April 21, 2016 Members Share Posted April 21, 2016 I certainly would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted May 8, 2016 Members Share Posted May 8, 2016 Depends on style and genre for sure. For big ol' classic rock/prog players: Tony Banks. And especially for the way he was able to transition his styles into the 80s. "Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea" says it all. For Jazz: Oscar Peterson for traditional stuff. Lyle Mays for modern fusion type stuff. Oh, and Joe Zawinul. And a dozen others. For pop/new wave type stuff: Rupert Greenall of The Fixx. For R&B: Larry Dunn with Earth, Wind & Fire. Stevie Wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members koolkat Posted May 8, 2016 Members Share Posted May 8, 2016 Keith Emerson, Josef Zawinul, Bill Evans, Vangelis, Larry Young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kbeaumont Posted May 9, 2016 Members Share Posted May 9, 2016 Dr John, Kieth Emerson, Ray Manzarek, Rod Argent, Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JazzMastaJim Posted May 12, 2016 Members Share Posted May 12, 2016 Keith Emerson, David Benoit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Ray Charles. Pop, Gospel and Blues all rolled into one. A true musical treasure. He'd make my list if he'd never done anything other than What'd I Say. The groove on that alone is legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted May 13, 2016 Members Share Posted May 13, 2016 A kid at school showed me a blues scale on the piano. When I got home from school that day I sat down at the piano and, for the first time, was able to create a groove. It felt like the music was coming from inside and I didn't have to play something the 'right' way. I got so excited about it that I thought this must be what it is like to be Ray Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted May 13, 2016 Members Share Posted May 13, 2016 That's a tough one to answer because you can ask Who is the best at doing what. I admire great players who have high skill levels but for some reason, the craftiness of how a keyboard is fit into the music is what catches my ears. I suppose its because keyboard is a secondary instrument for me and I relate to parts I'm actually able to play. Its a matter of good musical composition vs manual dexterity. I can hear a rag time player do things I could never dream of playing but I'd be board silly listening to those simple melodies. Take a few good notes and chords woven within a great piece of music and it sounds fantastic to me. Players like Billy Joel and Elton John had some wonderful pop hits. They both were responsible for putting the grand piano back on the map. Elton playing and singing Have Mercy on the Criminal or Don't lest the sun go down, have some tremendous dynamics happening. Creative wise, Both Roger Powell and Todd Rundgren inspired me a great deal. I saw them play in the band Utopia at least a half dozen times and they blew my doors off every time. The fact that they are multi talented and can switch playing instruments and all sing great was inspiring too. There are many multitalented keyboardists I admire like Daryl Hall to Joe Walsh just because they can move from one instrument and another and sound great on both. Ray Manzarek of the doors is another I have to rate very high, especially because he not only played the hell out of the instrument and came up with unforgettable riffs, but he also played the bass parts at the same time. Pretty amazing stuff for a three piece band with a lead singer. Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston did some amazing work on the keys. There are several who had those great eat sounding Hammond organs too. There were a bunch of rock bands that used them when I was growing up. Greg Allman was a favorite of mine. I've played many of their tunes in bands and no matter what, they just don't sound the same without those keyboard parts. Steve Hill of Bloodrock and Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly really put the squeeze on those recordings using Hammonds. I can dig up a tone of classical players too. Gershwin is one of my favorites in that league as are may of the other great masters like Mozart Bach and Beethoven. Unfortunately we can only admire the works the older masters left behind because they predate the ability to record them so we have to judge their ability to play based on what they wrote. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinkfloydcramer61 Posted May 13, 2016 Members Share Posted May 13, 2016 For synths my favorite would have to be Mike Porcero of Toto. The sounds and textures he created were very compelling, the melodicism of his parts and solos also. His work still sounds fresh today, to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Ed A. Posted May 17, 2016 Members Share Posted May 17, 2016 Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Greenjeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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