Peter Friedman

While this all becomes a matter of each person's ears, I think there is (perhaps) some confusion about the initial point of this thread. It was NOT focused on a piano player able to play a good blues. Rather it was about a blues feeling that was there in many tunes throughout almost all of their playing , including tune that were not actually blues tunes. Another way to think about it is a funky greasy quality that one can detect in the playing of those on my original list such as Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew,Etc. John Lewis and some of the others you listed here do NOT to my ears fit into this thread. However, I realize that you and some others may have a different opinions.

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Dan Barrett

Dvorak - String Quartet No.8, Op.80 and Schumann - Symphony No.4, Op120

Not on my personal list as a piano player. Maybe as a vocalist?

Bill, I purposely left out the very early original blues piano masters such as those you mentioned. I did include Sammy Price a he came along a bit later than those to which you referred. To my ears, Mike LeDonne is more in the Cedar Walton line and not a blues oriented pianist like the others on my list. His B-3 playing is quite different than is piano playing. Basie and Monk are tough ones for me. I have great affection for both, they are both terrific blues players, but see them as somewhat separate from the Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, Kenny drew, etc. group. Keep in mind as with most things of this sort, personal judgement is a key. So as much as Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones and Cedar Walton are very very strong favorites of mine, I don't perceive any of them as blues oriented as the others I listed . Yes I agree he deserves a spot on my list.

I very much agree that Gene Harris and Bobby Timmons belong on my list. Not sure why, but I have the impression that Don Pullen is more in the "avante grade" camp, but that is not actually based on hearing him much at all. The list I posted was based simply "off the top of my head" while out walking. I knew I was leaving out a number of others that would get mentioned. One that came to me after I posted the list was Horace Parlan.

Schumann - Piano Concerto Op.54. & R. Strauss - Burleske for Piano & Orchestra

Three or four mornings a week I go out for a roughly 3 mile walk. Today I was listening through my AirPods Pros to a Kenny Drew recording I had downloaded to my iPhone. While walking I began to formulate a list of jazz piano players who I consider to be heavily blues oriented. By this I mean pianists who not just play many blues tunes, but who also incorporate blues chords and/or a blues feeling into many of their solos. This is my initial list. You may have others you would like to mention. Kenny Drew Horace Silver Sonny Clark Hampton Hawes Carl Perkins Ray Bryant Junior Mance Les McCann Sammy Price

No.15, Op.28 "Pastoral" No.16, Op.31/1 No.17, Op.31/2 "The Tempest"

Yes, but other labels I followed included : Muse, Uptown, Criss Cross, Red and Timeless and a number of others.

James Moody

George, You left out the other group of fans. Those who did not listen to either RTF or Headhunters, but listened to acoustic jazz from the 1920's up to today.

Arensky - String Quartet No.1, Op.11 and Brahms - Piano Trio No.3, Op.101

String Quartet No.1 and No.2