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piano jazz

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Piano jazz is a style centered on the piano as the lead instrument, emerging from early 20th-century American jazz traditions. It features sophisticated harmonies, syncopated rhythms, and improvisation that ranges from delicate and introspective to virtuosic and swing-driven. The genre showcases both solo performances and intimate trio settings with bass and drums.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
95		1954	Kenny Drew	Kenny Drew And His Progressive Piano	jazz piano jazz
45		1959	Bill Evans	Everybody Digs Bill Evans	jazz	jazz piano # 48
97		1959	The Oscar Peterson Trio	A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra	jazz jazz trio piano jazz	jazz trio # 94
69		1959	Ahmad Jamal	Jamal at the Penthouse	jazz piano piano jazz
96		1959	Blossom Dearie	Once Upon A Summertime	female vocalists
22		1960	Dave Brubeck	Brubeck A La Mode	jazz piano jazz
39		1961	Barry Harris	Listen to Barry Harris	piano jazz
60		1961	Kenny Drew	Undercurrent	jazz piano jazz
74		1961	John Lewis	The Wonderful World Of Jazz	jazz piano jazz
76		1961-05	Duke Jordan	Flight to Jordan	hard bop jazz piano jazz	hard bop # 40
99		1963	Ahmad Jamal	Poinciana	jazz piano jazz	jazz trio # 93
77		1966	Dave Brubeck	Time In	jazz	jazz piano # 26
84		1966	Dave Brubeck	Greatest Hits	jazz piano jazz
89		1966	Ahmad Jamal	The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings	piano jazz
87		1968	Art Tatum	Piano Starts Here	jazz piano
47		1971	Dave Brubeck	Bravo! Brubeck!	jazz piano jazz
67		1971	Dave Brubeck	Jazz Goes to College	jazz piano jazz
46		1971-04	Dave Brubeck	Jazz Impressions of Japan	jazz piano jazz
21		1972	Scott Joplin	Ragtime With Scott Joplin	blues jazz piano jazz ragtime rnb soul	ragtime # 88
36		1972	Charles Mingus	The Great Concert of Charles Mingus	avant-garde jazz jazz piano jazz post-bop	avant-garde jazz # 12 post-bop # 26
51		1973	Dave Brubeck	We're All Together Again For The First Time	jazz piano jazz
52		1977	Alice Coltrane	Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana	jazz	indian classical # 73
34		1977	Dave Brubeck	Brandenburg Gate: Revisited	bebop jazz piano jazz
65		1978	Jay McShann	The Last of the Blue Devils	blues jazz piano jazz swing
2		1979	Sonny Clark	My Conception	jazz
50		1980	Dave Brubeck	Jazz At Oberlin	jazz piano jazz
54		1980	Bill Evans Trio	I Will Say Goodbye	jazz
35		1981	Michel Petrucciani	Live	jazz piano piano jazz post-bop	post-bop # 25
9		1981	Ahmad Jamal	The Legendary Okeh & Epic Sessions	jazz
68		1982	Herbie Hancock	Quartet	jazz piano jazz
100		1983	Tommy Flanagan	Master Trio	jazz piano jazz jazz piano	jazz piano # 73
10		1986	Earl Hines	An Evening With Earl Hines 1	jazz piano jazz
85		1987	Bill Evans	Waltz For Debby	jazz	jazz piano # 45 jazz trio # 58
7		1987	Bill Evans	The Alternative Man	piano jazz
92		1987	Ahmad Jamal	Crystal	jazz piano piano jazz
98		1987	Bill Evans Trio	Sunday At The Village Vanguard [Keepnews Collection]	jazz piano piano jazz
18		1989	Horace Silver Quintet	Song For My Father	hard bop jazz piano jazz soul jazz	soul jazz # 68
20		1989	Bud Powell	The Best Of Bud Powell - The Blue Note Years	jazz
62		1989	Earl Hines	Tour De Force	jazz piano piano piano jazz
44		1990	Bud Powell	Summer Sessions	jazz
66		1990	Bud Powell	Celia	jazz piano jazz
38		1991	Kenny Kirkland	Kenny Kirkland	jazz piano jazz post-bop	post-bop # 28
1		1991	Aziza Mustafa Zadeh	Aziza Mustafa Zadeh	jazz piano
3		1991	Dave Brubeck	Quiet as the Moon	jazz piano jazz
86		1993	Michel Camilo	Rendezvous	piano jazz	mambo # 91
19		1993	Gregg Karukas	Summerhouse	piano jazz smooth jazz
55		1993	Michel Petrucciani	Promenade With Duke	jazz piano jazz
26		1994	Gonzalo Rubalcaba	Diz	piano jazz
33		1994	Earl Hines	Piano Man!	jazz piano jazz swing
37		1995	Oscar Peterson	The More I See You	jazz piano jazz
29		1995-04-11	Dave Brubeck	Jazz Collection	jazz piano jazz
12		1996	Dave Brubeck	This is Jazz	piano jazz
6		1996-03-22	Cyrus Chestnut	Earth Stories	jazz piano piano jazz
59		1996-05-21	George Shearing	Verve Jazz Masters 57	jazz piano jazz
53		1997	Cedar Walton	Naima	jazz piano jazz
5		1997-01-07	Bobby Lyle	The Power Of Touch	jazz piano jazz soul jazz	soul jazz # 67
16		1998	Cyrus Chestnut	Cyrus Chestnut	contemporary jazz jazz piano jazz post-bop
31		1998	Thelonious Monk	Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk- 1962-1968	jazz jazz piano piano jazz
79		1999	McCoy Tyner	Blue Bossa	jazz piano jazz
73		1999-08-24	Gonzalo Rubalcaba	Inner Voyage	piano jazz
14		2000	Dave Brubeck	Ken Burns Jazz	jazz piano jazz
23		2000	Dave Brubeck	Dave Digs Disney	jazz piano jazz
49		2000	Fats Waller	Welcome To Jazz	jazz
72		2000-06-13	Oscar Peterson	Oscar Peterson's Finest Hour	jazz piano jazz
40		2001	Dave Brubeck	Vocal Encounters	jazz piano jazz
88		2001	Dave Brubeck	On Time	jazz
48		2002	Jessica Williams	This Side Up	piano jazz
4		2002-01-01	David Hazeltine	The Classic Trio Meets Eric Alexander	jazz piano jazz smooth jazz
43		2002-03-26	Michel Camilo	Triangulo	acoustic piano jazz
63		2002-06-25	Alan Broadbent	You and the Night and the Music	jazz jazz piano piano jazz
57		2002-09-24	Art Tatum	The Definitive Art Tatum	jazz
30		2002-10-28	Stan Getz	Café Montmartre	double bass jazz piano piano jazz	double bass # 93
17		2003	Leszek Możdżer	Kaczmarek by Możdżer	piano jazz polish soundtrack
56		2003	Jessica Williams	All Alone	piano jazz
70		2003-03-17	Tord Gustavsen Trio	Changing Places	jazz	jazz piano # 36 jazz trio # 85
82		2004	Amanda Rogers	Daily News	piano jazz piano rock	piano rock # 2
83		2004	Teddy Wilson	Teddy Wilson	jazz oldies piano piano jazz swing traditional jazz	traditional jazz # 97
11		2005	Ahmad Jamal	The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings	jazz
41		2005	Andrew Hill	Judgment	jazz piano jazz
80		2005-01-26	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	Viaticum	jazz contemporary jazz	piano trio # 36 contemporary jazz # 78
42		2005-09-13	Hank Jones	Hanky Panky	jazz piano jazz
27		2006	Hampton Hawes	Trio Complete Sessions	instrumental jazz piano piano jazz
32		2006	Giovanni Allevi	Joy	piano
15		2006-05-16	Biotron Shelf	33 Minutes North	new age piano jazz smooth jazz
90		2006-07-17	The Necks	Chemist	double bass jazz trio piano piano jazz	jazz trio # 92 double bass # 99
64		2006-09-12	Jason Moran	Artist In Residence	contemporary jazz jazz jazz piano piano piano jazz
71		2006-09-22	Keith Jarrett	The Carnegie Hall Concert	piano jazz jazz
61		2008-01-11	Marcin Wasilewski Trio	January	jazz	polish jazz # 75 piano trio # 77
78		2009	Gregg Karukas	GK	piano jazz smooth jazz
13		2009-09-05	Hiromi Uehara	Place To Be	drumless jazz jazz piano piano jazz piano solo	drumless # 46 piano solo # 62
24		2010	Horace Silver	Serenade To A Soul Sister	jazz piano
91		2010	Dave Brubeck	I Like Jazz: The Essence Of Dave Brubeck	jazz piano jazz
75		2010-10-22	Yaron Herman Trio	Follow the White Rabbit	french instrumental jazz piano jazz
94		2012-03-26	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	301	contemporary jazz instrumental jazz piano jazz piano trio sweden swedish	contemporary jazz # 45 sweden # 70 piano trio # 100
81		2014-11-12	Joe Sample	Old Places, Old Faces
8		2016-02-05	Ketil Bjørnstad	Suite For Sampler.Selected Signs, II		soundscape # 40
28		2017	Thelonious Monk	Straight, No Chaser (Remaster)
25		2023-07-05	jizue	biotop	piano jazz
58			Lennie Tristano	Intuition	piano jazz
93			Paintamelody	Army Jimin's Promise Piano Collection Album	jazz piano jazz

Related genres

• jazz
• piano
• jazz piano
• post-bop
• smooth jazz
• contemporary jazz
• jazz trio
• blues
• instrumental
• bebop