Non classical piano based music recommendaiton

Elton John is a very good piano player, I have that from my wife as she has been playing the piano since she was four, and could read music before words...

Some of his older work is quite good if you can get past Bernie Taupin's lyrics!

Billy Joel used to lament that fact that he could never find a good guitar player, and so relied heavily on his piano.

I'll have to give this some more thought, I can picture people like Norah Jones and Diana Krall at the piano, but musically I'm not sure...

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The latest artist I've hear that fits your criteria is Taylor Eigsti (sp?). Quite a young man but very accomplished pianist. His sidemen, bass and drums, are also very good.

I agree with Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett rec's - they'd be at the top of my list (though Jarret's grunting sometimes gets on my nerves). I like Keith Jarrett - "Standards" (there's no grunting :-) ).

Others that I have and like are:

Chick Corea - note that he has some acoustic stuff and a lot of electric fusion stuff, so it depends on what you really want. For Acoustic check out Chick Corea/Gary Burton - "In Concert: Zurich Oct, 1979", and Chick Corea/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul - "A.R.C."

Don Shirley - "Solos" and "With 2 Basses" I like them though I don't know if this is his best stuff

David Chesky - "The Tangos and Dances" I really, really like it. Just one note - it's very mellow and I often fall asleep during it. In fact when I want a nap, this is one of the cd's I put on. (I know this is hardly an endorsement, but trust me it's worth having)

Also mellow - Tord Gustavsen Trio - "The Ground" and "Changing Places"

for something with vocals - how about Tori Amos? and Diana Krall?

Alan Hovhaness has a solo disc of shorter piano compositions called "Shalimar". I think it's sublime. It's not jazz or pop, so I suppose you might call it classical but it's not what most people think of as classical.

"Shalimar" at Amazon

You can break out your grandmother's Liberace records :-)