I've recently become obsessed with great piano music. Not necessarily classical, just great. Like the thread I started regarding acoustic guitar, this follows the same lines. Who is your favorite? It doesn't have to be based on the ability to play fast or on the technical ability side of it. It just needs to be moving. Needs to be able to pull you in and tell a story of your past. I guess the best term to describe this is simply beautiful music.
As of right now, Ludovico Einaudi is my absolute favorite. I've listened to quite a bit of this genre lately and George Winston, Peter Kater and Kevin Kern all get high marks from me. But none of them move me like Ludovico Einaudi.
If you have an absolute favorite, just one that hits you like no other, post it. If you have several, list them.
There may be a couple of other favorite pianist lists in another thread or two... Obviously Monk changed things a lot and was great. There's probably not anyone as earth shaking currently active, (maybe because now there's less new ground available to shake)... a few more good ones you might find in a jazz section:
Vijay Iyer Don Preston Paul Plimley Cecil Taylor Myra Melford Matthew Shipp Simon Nabatov Achim Kaufmann Horace Tapscott Michiel Borstlap Sophia Domancich Jean Michel Pilc Francois Bourassa Sylvie Courvoisier
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