Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck composed " Koto Song " that, while not featuring the koto itself, is played to allow the piano to emulate its sound.

* 1920 – John Lewis, American pianist, arranger, and composer ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – John Lewis, American jazz pianist ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( b. 1920 )

That same year he released " Jazz Impressions 1 " with pianist Silvano Monasterios and bassist Mark Egan.

* 1998: This song was covered by Jazz pianist Eric Reed for his album Pure Imagination.

* January 24 – Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation ' The Köln Concert ' at the Cologne Opera, which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.

In July 2009, she will perform at North Sea Jazz Festival along with fellow pianist Hiromi Uehara.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

Jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole, country singer Hank Williams, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Melvin Franklin of The Temptations, and guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx are among the many musicians to get their start in Montgomery.

" Jazz pianist George Shearing's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: " with Shearing's locked hands style piano ( influenced by the voicing of Miller's saxophone section ) in the middle the quintet's harmonies.

* Jazz pianist and composer Tadd Dameron composed " Fontainebleau " upon visiting the palace.

W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars, includes noted musicians from all over the United States, such as guitarist Mundell Lowe, drummer Bill Goodwin, pianist / vocalist Johnny O ' Neal, vibraphone player Chuck Redd, pianist / vocalist Ray Reach and flautist Holly Hofmann.

* Bob Dorough, Jazz pianist and author of many famous Schoolhouse Rock!

* Johnny Costa – Jazz pianist

Currently happenings today can be found with Jazz in a whole new way through the artistic collaboration of renowned musicians American saxophonist David Liebman, French jazz pianist Jean-Marie Machado, and multimedia visual artist Barbara Januszkiewicz.

He also performed every Monday night, accompanied by a trio which included guitarist Lou Pallo, bassist Paul Nowinksi ( and later, Nicki Parrott ) and pianist John Colaianni, originally at Fat Tuesdays, and later at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway in the Times Square area of New York City.

* Tom Vaughn, Jazz pianist and Episcopal Priest formerly at St. John's Episcopal Church

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson requested a live presentation, which he heard in an emotional re-performance in his home in March 2007.

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Mangione and his pianist brother Gap led the Jazz Brothers group which recorded three albums for Riverside Records.

Jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe, whose music was influenced by Bud Powell, said in an interview with All About Jazz:

She was accompanied by bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey, and the band he assembled called the Wildcats Jazz Band which included Eddie Pollack, Gabriel Washington, Albert Wynn and David Nelson.

Robinson joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when pianist Henry Ragas died in the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1919.

Although Nashville was never known as a jazz town, it did have many great jazz bands, including The Nashville Jazz Machine led by Dave Converse and its current version, the Nashville Jazz Orchestra, led by Jim Williamson, as well as The Establishment, led by Billy Adair.

* Jazz trombonist and arranger Jim Pugh was born and raised in Butler.

Jim Dunlop also has released an Eric Johnson signature Jazz III plectrum and an Eric Johnson signature Fuzz Face.

At the end of the Davis tenure, he started what is now referred to as his Blue Matter Band-with Dennis Chambers on drums, Gary Grainger on bass and at times either Robert Aries or Jim Beard on keyboards-releasing Blue Matter, Loud Jazz and Pick Hits Live.

* Music hall had a profound influence on The Beatles through Paul McCartney, who is himself the son of a music hall performer ( Jim McCartney, who led Jim Mac's Jazz Band ).

San Antonio has deep roots in America's classical music, Jazz, with KRTU-FM representing one of the most significant jazz radio stations in the country, and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band serving as a staple act on the San Antonio Riverwalk.

* Jazz After Hours: host, Jim Wilke from KPLU

* Riverwalk Jazz: hosts: David Holt and Jim Cullum ; from Pacific Vista Productions and Texas Public Radio

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau recorded a nine-minute cover of " Paranoid Android " on his album Largo ( 2002 ), featuring percussionists Jim Keltner and Matt Chamberlain, as well as a horn section.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

The core of its instrument line — the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Mustang, Precision Bass and Jazz Bass — remains largely unchanged from the 1950s and 1960s originals ( Roberts, Jim.

* The Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall ( Giants of Jazz / ita, 1995 )

Watrous, Pete, " Review / Jazz ; Jim Hall, Intense Guitar ," New York Times, March 1988. http :// www. nytimes. com / 1988 / 03 / 12 / arts / review-jazz-jim-hall-intense-guitarist. html? ref = jimhall

* " In Conversation with Jim Hall " by Patrick Spurling ( Jazz. com )

The book What Was the First Rock ' n ' Roll Record by Jim Dawson and Steve Propes discusses 50 contenders as the " first rock and roll record ", the earliest being " Blues, Part 2 " from the 1944 Jazz at the Philharmonic live album, also featuring Jacquet's saxophone but with an even more " honking " solo.

The instrument has a number of other names, such as marímbola ( Puerto Rico ), bass box, calimba ( also spelled calymba ), rhumba box, Church & Clap, Jazz Jim ( Jamaica ), and box lamellophone.

The Marimbula became quite popular in Jamaica in conjunction with guitars, drums, maracas and vocals in the churches, where it was known as church and clap, in the nightclubs where it was known as Jazz Jim and among the various hotel performers, who played mento music.

Wallace's backup group on were pianist Jim Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band, consisting of cornetist Paul Klinger, trombonist Bob Smith and Russ Whitman and Peter Ferran on reeds.

The station also carries selected NPR and other syndicated programs such as: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz ; Riverwalk Jazz, hosted by Jim Cullum ; Jazz from Lincoln Center, hosted by Wynton Marsalis ; and Dee Dee Bridgewater's Jazz Set.