Best Rock n' Roll Piano Performers

[dvegas]

Herbie Hancock
Roger Troutman

Herbie Hancock played Jorgenson in 1983 at the height of his mainstream popularity. The Future Shock album. Rockit. Didn't even sell the joint out. Being from SW CT I listened to KTU & BLS in the summer and knew what was up. Pretty sure I was with the fun guy that night

 

[8893]

Page McConnell has some pretty good chops on the keyboards.

I see we have some fellow B3 fans here. Check out Brian Auger, Charles Earland, Robert Walter and Marco Benevento.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I so hate when rockers are perfunctory. Pisses me off.

Even more than when they're desultory? Lol

 

[dvegas]

I see we have some fellow B3 fans here. Check out Brian Auger, Charles Earland, Robert Walter and Marco Benevento.

Add Middletown Connecticut native, but long time New Orleans based, Joe Ashlar to that list. I know Marco agrees, I saw them B3 duel on Jam Cruise 5-6 year-end ago and it was face melting

 

[gampelcrazies]

Roy Bittan

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Andrew McMahon

I mean he got me laid a few times from ages 18-26

 

[Madmannsucks]

He does blues but if you don't know Victor Wainright then Ask Jeeves about him. Amazing showman.

Yup real nice guy too.

 

[Seamus84]

Billy Powell....Lynyrd Skynyrd...Call me the Breeze

 

[TerryBoyz]

Ben Folds of Ben Folds Five

 

[lonsharkin51]

This name won't make any sense to anyone, but I saw Hermeto Pascoal at Jazz Fest in 2000. They call him the wizard. He is, according to Facebook, "a legendary figure in the history of Brazilian music." He was unbelievable, just wailing on the keyboard and screaming gibberish (or maybe Portuguese) into the mic.

 

[Madmannsucks]

Wait, does Bruce Hornsby play piano...How'd we miss him?

 

[ET7774]

Jon Cleary

 

[Ewekon]

Ian "Stew" Stewart..

 

[boba]

Interesting, have l missed D Fagen?
edit Nope D. Fagen wasn't listed prior to this post... And this intro... but is it Rock n or Roll?
Home At Last

 

[Huskybass]

Herbie Hancock played Jorgenson in 1983 at the height of his mainstream popularity. The Future Shock album. Rockit. Didn't even sell the joint out. Being from SW CT I listened to KTU & BLS in the summer and knew what was up. Pretty sure I was with the fun guy that night

I think it was 1984 or 1985. I lived in the Jungle at the time.

 

[Umami Zen]

Steve Winwood on the Hammond.

Jimmy Smith on the Hammond..More R+B than Rock

 

[August_West]

Page McConnell has some pretty good chops on the keyboards.

I see we have some fellow B3 fans here. Check out Brian Auger, Charles Earland, Robert Walter and Marco Benevento.

if you are going that route it’s Cory Henry and then a bunch who wish they were Cory Henry. You ever see what he did at Melvin crispells funeral?

 

[8893]

if you are going that route it’s Cory Henry and then a bunch who wish they were Cory Henry. You ever see what he did at Melvin crispells funeral?

No, but he's great, too.

I'm a huge sucker for the B3. Hits my sweet spot and there are so many I like. I've only discovered guys like Auger and Earland in the past few years and their work blows me away. I forgot Dr. Lonnie Smith, too, whom I've known of longer and seen several times.

Also David Torkanowksy, Davell Crawford and Henry Butler on piano.

 

[August_West]

No, but he's great, too.

I'm a huge sucker for the B3. Hits my sweet spot and there are so many I like. I've only discovered guys like Auger and Earland in the past few years and their work blows me away. I forgot Dr. Lonnie Smith, too, whom I've known of longer and seen several times.

Also David Torkanowksy, Davell Crawford and Henry Butler on piano.

Two words then:

Joey DeFrancesco

have fun with that rabbit hole

 

[8893]

Two words then:

Joey DeFrancesco

have fun with that rabbit hole

Oh I know him. I listen to the SiriusXM Real Jazz Station 90% of the time at work (like now) and they play him all the time.

 

[Waquoit]

Dr. John (Mac Rebennack)

Dr. John

We caught Dr. John at a Hamden free show what I thought was a few summers ago. Turns out it was 2007. That was a great time. Great weather, big enthusiastic crowd, couple of beers and a capicola grinder. Dr. John had a full band and put on a heck of a show.

 

[8893]

We caught Dr. John at a Hamden free show what I thought was a few summers ago. Turns out it was 2007. That was a great time. Great weather, big enthusiastic crowd, couple of beers and a capicola grinder. Dr. John had a full band and put on a heck of a show.

I remember that you and I were both at that show. I brought my whole family, all of whom had been to New Orleans and had seen (and met!) Dr. John several times by then, but we didn't have high hopes for that show because we figured it would be a typically lame Connecticut crowd. Yep, we were wrong. Everyone was up, dancing and hollering for more by the end of the night.

Still hard to believe that he's dead. RIP, Mac.

 

[Waquoit]

Everyone was up, dancing and hollering for more by the end of the night.

Very generous set, as well. It wasn't 90 minutes and grab the check. Over 2 hours playing a bit of everything.

 

[imno1]

Very generous set, as well. It wasn't 90 minutes and grab the check. Over 2 hours playing a bit of everything.

So what you’re sayin is it was “Such a Night”

 

[mussels]

 

[Stoneman]

Melvin Seals~ Brent Mydland

 

[8893]

So what you’re sayin is it was “Such a Night”

Mos' scocious.

 

[BoukofJames]

Gotta be Dr John. Love this version with The Band from ‘The Last Waltz’ (which is available on Amazon Prime Video!)

 

[Umami Zen]

Gotta be Dr John. Love this version with The Band from ‘The Last Waltz’ (which is available on Amazon Prime Video!)

If you're going Dr John as Rock N Roll.. And he was awesome.. I'll throw Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles in that genre..

 

[CTBballfan243]

Benmont Tench - Melinda Great Piano Solo