Piano only...

Dick Hyman plats Fats Weller on Reference Recordings is excellent. Fred Hersch Songs without Words is solo piano. Most of his other work is with a trio. Art Tatum has a number of piano solo works, though the recording quality on many of these is marginal. All of the Marcus Roberts albums I own are with an orchestra or jazz group. If he has any solo work it would be fantastic. I highly recommend him in concert if you get the chance as well.

take a look at Maxxjazz.com ( and listen ) some nice stuff there. I did and bought a couple nice albums... They are all broken down into jazz type categories and you have the option of listening at any you wish... Nice web site....

Try "Soul Shadows" by Joe Sample. A truely amazing new record. Also, Ray Bryant is fun live. Try "Montreux Live", "Somewhere In France" or "Alone At Montreux".

Hilton Ruiz---- Songbook

Bill Evans-Conversations with myself. Thelonious Monk-Solo. I second the Fred Hersch-Songs without Words.