l p Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 i don't know how obscure he is, but i was very impressed with John Foster's solo on a blues on a mingus 1972 european concert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted June 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 his wife Gay took over his students after he died; I used to refer to her as the Last of the Mehegans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted June 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 about Bill Rubenstein, see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rubenstein_%28Musiker%29 Thanks for the link. Has anyone heard any of the Connor, Sloane or other LPs he played on? Was there a Bill Evans thing in his playing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted June 6, 2014 Report Share Posted June 6, 2014 Detroit pianist Will Davis Made one date as a leader for the Sue label: Have Mood Will Call Trio with Will Austin and Oliver Jackson THIS IS A GREAT RECORD!!!! The Japanese reissued it on CD. I believe that Will Davis is the pianist on the very good Kenny Burrell album on Prestige titled "Soul Call". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat5 Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Dave Austin in San Francisco is a fine jazz pianist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 (edited) there is also a pianist in Woodshole Massachusetts named Glenway Fripp; played with him a few times; scary brilliant, pulls stuff out of himself that makes you turn around and say, huh? Also Lewis Porter is incredible. Edited June 7, 2014 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Yeah on Lewis Porter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Valdo Williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 (edited) Rahn Burton - stumbled over him long time ago via Edited June 8, 2014 by soulpope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 I wouldn't call him 'obscure', but certainly under-recognized is Hod O'Brien. And in Toronto, we had (he died a couple of years back) a fine pianist, Ian Bargh (as in 'barge'). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 I would second Hod O'Brien. Jack Reilly. Almost the "Andrew White of piano players," in that nearly his entire discography consists of self-released / private press recordings on his Unichrom label. As his website suggests, his chief influences are Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck; fire and ice or oil and water, maybe, but he's a pianist possessed of a deep harmonic intelligence and compositional imagination. http://www.jackreillyjazz.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mracz Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 Joseph Scianni. Wonderful duo record with Izenson on Savoy, and on the Don Cherry/Pharoah Sanders sides. Not like anyone else I've heard, free, but not in the Cecil mould. Also Willie Jones who is head turning on the Clark Terry Paul Gonsalves date on Argo. Somewhere between Milt Buckner and Cecil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnblitweiler Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 I heard very clever piano variations and improvisations on 'Good Bait' by Nina Simone on the radio today. Did she make an album of her piano playing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 John Coates, Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 I heard very clever piano variations and improvisations on 'Good Bait' by Nina Simone on the radio today. Did she make an album of her piano playing? Not that I am aware, but would like to be corrected if necessary. The few trio recordings scattered across her early recordings for Bethlehem are intriguing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnb6ejdEz0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMB1968 Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Mike Taylor. Two great albums in the mid-1960s, then drowned swimming in the Thames. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Yeah, those are excellent records. There is also the Mike Taylor Remembered LP put together by Neil Ardley in 1973 (though not issued until many years later). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 Mike Taylor. Two great albums in the mid-1960s, then drowned swimming in the Thames. Scott Obscure but not forgotten over here. And a short tribute to him ('Abena') played by Matthew Bourne kicked off the big Jazz Britannia concert back in 2005 (most fitting). It was in the Thames Estuary near Southend that he drowned I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMB1968 Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 (edited) Mike Taylor. Two great albums in the mid-1960s, then drowned swimming in the Thames. Scott Obscure but not forgotten over here. And a short tribute to him ('Abena') played by Matthew Bourne kicked off the big Jazz Britannia concert back in 2005 (most fitting). It was in the Thames Estuary near Southend that he drowned I think. I'm glad to hear that. Taylor deserves to be remembered, he had a very original voice -- who knows what he could have done if things had turned out differently. Edited June 11, 2014 by SMB1968 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 I'll put in a word for Terry Shannon, who was a leading British jazz pianist until his disappearance from the music at the end of the sixties. Here he is with Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKpWwCrSJs And here's Simon Spillett's assessment of him (scroll down): http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/extra/brit.piano.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Carlton Holmes -- Can be heard on his own trio album "You and Me," on Cindy Blackman"s "Works on Canvas," and on several albums by the Bill Kirchner Nonet (where I first heard him). Damn fine player. Also Ben Patterson, formerly Von Freeman's pianist. Not obscure exactly but up and coming: http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Elements-Ben-Paterson/dp/B00F9PTKVG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1403568695&sr=1-1&keywords=ben+patterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 How about the late Jimmy Amadie? Special circumstances kept him off the scene, and I've only ever heard his few recordings, but he sure sounded good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Sam Dockery played on a number of recordings with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1950's and then faded from view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) Sam Dockery played on a number of recordings with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1950's and then faded from view. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery Known as "Sure-Footed Sam". Never knew that before! Edited June 24, 2014 by BillF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 is he still alive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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