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Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Geoffrey Keezer
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
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Gerald Clayton
Gerald Clayton
American musician
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Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
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Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Paul McCandless
Paul McCandless
American musician
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Bill Evans
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
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Ted Rosenthal
Ted Rosenthal
American musician
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McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
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Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard
American musician
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
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John Scofield
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
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Billy Childs
Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
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Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
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Bill Cunliffe
Bill Cunliffe
American musician
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Hank Jones
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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Pascal Le Boeuf
Pascal Le Boeuf
American jazz pianist, composer
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
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Craig Taborn
Craig Taborn
American musician
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Fred Frith
Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
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John Serry Jr.
John Serry Jr.
American pianist and composer; son of John Serry, Sr.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Eddie Costa
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
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Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
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Lyle Mays
Lyle Mays
American jazz musician
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Jim McNeely
Jim McNeely
American musician
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Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias
Brazilian jazz pianist, singer, arranger and songwriter
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Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
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James Williams
James Williams
American jazz pianist
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Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn
American singer
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Joe LaBarbera
Joe LaBarbera
American musician
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
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Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Dave MacKay
Dave MacKay
American musician
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Antonio Sánchez
Antonio Sánchez
Mexican jazz drummer, composer
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Vadim Neselovskyi
Vadim Neselovskyi
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant
American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots
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Michael Moore
Michael Moore
American jazz musician
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Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
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Miguel Zenón
Miguel Zenón
Puerto Rican alto saxophonist
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Eyran Katsenelenbogen
Eyran Katsenelenbogen
American musician
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Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant
American pianist
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John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
American musician
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Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
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Art Tatum
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
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Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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Bill Charlap
Bill Charlap
American jazz pianist
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin
American pianist
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John Lewis
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
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John Mehegan
John Mehegan
American musician
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Chucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés
Cuban musician
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Kurt Elling
Kurt Elling
American jazz singer and songwriter
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Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
Fred Hersch
American musician

Fred Hersch

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American musician
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Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955) is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 70 of his jazz compositions. Hersch has been nominated for several Grammy Awards, and, as of December 2014, had been on the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1980 (with breaks).