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In Reply to: RE: 36 greatest jazz pianists? posted by Mike K on August 31, 2016 at 19:38:41
Pretty correct. Herbie Hancock ahead of Oscar Peterson for sure. He's been a huge, huge influence on modern jazz. I don't see Sonny Clark or Lyle Mays need to be there - I'd substitute Cedar Walton and the Pete Johnson-Albert Ammons duo. Gotta have some boogie in there!
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Not doubt Hancock has been quite influential, but he doesn't have better
chaps that OP.
Harmonic skills would go to Hancock easily in my mind. Then there's the question of whether technical display and touch are limited by skill or deliberately by taste. Herbie played the Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony when he was 12 years old. He's not a technical lightweight, even though that might not be immediately apparent to some because he's not cast in the Tatum mold the way Oscar was.
Compositional chops? The winner there should be obvious.
Herbie would probably be in my personal top 5. Oscar would not. That's not a slam against Oscar, who was an amazing pianist. That said, I find more value in a player who helped shaped the vocabulary of the music in a big way than I do in a guy who sounds more or less like Tatum recorded in hi fi. It ain't all about fireworks.
dh
Perfect!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
He has a few nice albums for background listening from the '50s and '60s. Just everything he did after 1970 is pretty much unlistenable, IMO. Especially the ones with Mraz and NHOP.
Long time no see! Hope you've been well. Great to see you around...
dh
Been busy with family. Hope you're doing well, my friend! Nice to hear from you.
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