That was really great to hear and see. The Ahmad Jamal clip was incredible. I found the sounds and tunings of the pianos interesting too. I love a well tuned piano 😊

The list (actually 9): 4:12 - McCoy Tyner 7:15 - Herbie Hancock 9:37 - Bill Evans 11:55 - Keith Jarrett 15:44 - Ahmad Jamal 18:52 - Chick Corea 24:31 - Nina Simone 27:16 - Shirley Horne 29:40 - Wynton Kelly

i meet Herbie in Detroit, giving a master class to young kids about 20 yrs ago ...and i come fr a very musical family and we talked for a little while ...and the big question came along whose the best and a direct quote" chick n i (Herbie) play a great jazz piano , KJ is a maestro " and he said that w emphasis and wout hesitation.

wow, I hadn’t seen that performance of Spain before and that was incredible! thank you for that. I’d personally shout out Red Garland as one of this generation’s best

I came up with Horace Silver as the obvious pianist missing in the list.

Really great to see this. BTW, the bassist with Bill Evans is Chuck Israels.

Great selection and so glad to see Nina Simone in your list.

Other bonuses: Phineas Newborn, Sonny Clark, Hampton Hawes, Dave McKenna

Great list. Not many folks talk about Bill Evans "Very Early", one of my all-time favorites Bill Evans compositions.

A thought for Joe Zawinul with Cannonbal ..

You chose THE Most unremarkable Jarrett moment EVER! There is a video on KZfaq of the European Quartet, in 1974, and the opening piano solo - for Belonging is Out of this World! That would have been much better, or...the Trio with Peacock, and Dejohnette, playing "Love for Sale"!

A staggeringly good list, and as you say probably the greatest generation of all. Can think of a few additions, but who do you drop to fit them in? You're definitely going to have to do an extra generation to cater for Duke, JR Morton & James P Johnson!

Caught this on the Podcast first, which I really enjoy because it makes you focus on the sounds. I'm thrilled to see some familiar pianists to revisit from this series, but also appalled that there were a couple that I knew nothing about. Fortunately I don't have any jazz piano history exams any time soon. 😊 But seriously, this is a great "tickler" for anyone interested in jazz piano from any level.

Could you guys do a video on Bill Evans' last recordings? Consecration and The Last Waltz? His playing is totally different from his early playing. It's like he knows he's dying so he has to get out all the music in him as quickly possible hahaha. Thanks and God Bless!

On the Bill Evans segment, I don't think that is Scott Lafaro, I think that is Chuck Israels. Phineas Newborn is the man I am expecting to ear something about.

Dear Adam Maness and Peter Martin, Thanks for sharing and honoring all those great musicians through all your channels with the 7 greatest (I disregarded when they were born). Some of them were new to me. However, some other really impressive piano players were not on the list: (1) Peter Martin himself - which I did not know before. I am really impressed by his subtle soft dynamics among others. He has his own subtle unique style of playing - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJOlnsxzm9Cwmac.html AND kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hKiPmaZytMjIiGg.html (2) George Duke, which with his blues touch just makes me speechless - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrR5ds9pt9vcfH0.html (3) Rachelle Ferrell which expresses extreme strong rhythms with spaces without sound, with inmense strong gospel-music feelings - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNOKpKyYxpO0aYU.html AND kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rap_Zq2muti9cnU.html (4) Lyle Mays, which Path Metheny expressed great admiration for - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qM9ora-jtqzZd5s.html AND kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLl9g8KIvd-qmHk.html I would also like to mention Jeff Lorber and Russel Ferrante even though they were more on the synth, which then we would also need to include the great Zawinul (even though he was also great and unique in his beginnings on the Piano in the US with among other Ben Webster - see kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itJ5hJqVq9ivl5s.html - where you can already hear his unique way of using spaces and prases, which is also characteristics of his later 'fusion' playing - see a video of 20 short clips of Zawinul's "unique phrases" (in 20 min.): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arWUqbWYr8vOm4k.html ) I fully agree with Adam Maness and Peter Martin that there will always be pianists that are great and deserve to be on the list, and which we may have missed. There is simply too much beauty out there of musicians whom express themselves authentically and emotionally deep. Thanks a lot for sharing them, acknowleding them and honoring them.

What about Hermeto Pascoal?

Don’t forget Michael Petruciani

Let’s talk about living players of this generation like Herbie and Kenny Barron. Who else is still living and playing strong? For one, you all need to go hear the astonishing master Roger Kellaway who just played a hard swinging set at Mezzrows kzfaq.infoa7ffjBfVt0A?feature=share

Paul Bley?

Dave Hurwitz, classical critique, makes all sorts of interesting lists re classical music. He has delicious admonishments for his listeners re their comments for these lists. No “you forgot , you left out such and so”. No leaving just a name. Comments about ‘Who you like’ without giving some explanation- don’t bother, no one cares who you like. He says he reads every single comment and deletes one’s that are not useful (my paraphrase, not a quote). Get your own podcast. Dave is very worth looking up for his point of view as well as his beyond encyclopedic knowledge of classical music. fwiw

Ironic that the "silent" generation made the best music!

Joe zawiful should be up here

I’m sure Joe Zawinul is on their white board too, or he may be too young

Everybody who grew up in church, and with American music in general, loves the plagal cadence. Right?....

Horace Silver over Shirley Horne? Very honorable mentions to Barry Harris, Kenny Barron

and Geo. Cables of course

George Shearing

mal waldron

What? No prominent mention of Bud Powell? Horace Silver; Bobby Timmons; or even the magical Sonny Clark whose cult I belong to; You guys seem pretty lame here. Either that … or you just knew this list was going to blow up in your face. Right?

Paul Bley ?