Looking for new to me Jazz music

Curiousjim,

I'll check out the Lester Young with Oscar today. Thanks for the recommendation.

Just listening youtube all day Bill Charlap...One of the finest pianist i ever heard in Jazz... Unknown to me... Finally i listen to some files with Scott Hamilton and him ....

That will make my year.... I must just look for all the others albums ....

:)

Thanks wolf_garcia.... What a beautiful day....

Truly great pianist of jazz are rarer bird than most think.....For me tough....

Virtuosity is the least important quality, but for sure necessary....
Melodic sense an absolute must....(if not the pianist develop mannerism and virtuoso ready made formula)
Mastering colors and shades and hues like playing Scriabin mandatory....
And then the pianist must have the spontaneous rythmical and timing qualities necessary to play with anyone even with only himself... :)

Bill Charlap has all that....

wolf_garcia

I go on today like yesterday with Bill Charlap....

I like piano so much.... in jazz many plays acrobatics instead of controlled tender touch, they dont paint ,they hammer some set of nails...

You have made my year truly.... I wish you the best.... How in the world is it possible that this truly musical pianist is not so more much known?

Much of all others are on his shade side, except Bill Evans and a few others....

He is a  always a poet....

Thanks....

I just discover also that his wife Renee Rosnes is a wonderful jazz pianist to my liking also....

Thanks to the second power....

:)

The Bill Charlap trio opened for Steely Dan once at the Beacon Theater.