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Ahmad Jamal was my mother's favorite jazz pianist... by Kbyrnes
...I still have the LPs in our overflow area in Long Beach.
Have you listened to Tigran Hamasyan? I discovered him a few years ago while listening to NPR. His music is often very spare and contemplative, as if Satie wrote jazz.
In that slightly French vein, here is Hamasyan playing his own "Leaving Paris."
And here is his "Lilac."
Another fine jazz pianist with a very distinctive style was Marian McPartland, whose "Piano Jazz" program was my porthole into this jazz medium for years. Back in 1979 she had Bill Evans on; here's the first of four segments on YT from that show.