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Playing the Piano

A celebration of piano players, famous and not so famous, as they practice their artistry.


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Ain't That a Shame

Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969

The Piano

Jaki Byard, 1978

Professor Longhair, 1973

Aaron Copland

Ray Charles - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980

Indoor Portrait of Two Women and a Boy Standing at the Piano

Indoor Portrait of Two Children Sitting at a Piano

A Portrait

Mary Lou Williams, 1977

Vladimir Horowitz at the piano

Indoor Photo of a Man and Woman Facing each other and both are Playing the Piano

Keith Jarrett

Marc Blitzstein

Igor Stravinsky

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Nat King Cole

Sammy Cahn (with Jimmy Van Heusen)

The Way of Life of the Northern Negro: Untitled

Willie "the Lion" Smith

Mary Lou Williams

Roy Meriwether, 1992

Oscar Peterson, 1975

Charles Brown, 1995

Ray Bryant, 1979

McCoy Tyner, 1990

Stevie Wonder in concert at the Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.

Photographic print of Duke Ellington, Alfredo Gustar, and Billy Strayhorn

Horace Silver, 1977

Shirley Scott, 1976

Billy Taylor, 1993

Hank Jones, 1975

Carol Fran, 1992

Buddy Montgomery, 1980


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