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Oleg Borisovich Akkuratov is a Russian pianist, [1] jazz improviser and singer who has amaurosis – complete blindness.He is a virtuoso performer of jazz and classical works and a laureate of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation for young cultural workers (2019).
Matthew Whitaker (born April 3, 2001) is an American jazz pianist. Blind since birth, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Apollo Theater, where, at 10, he was the opening performer for Stevie Wonder's induction into the Apollo Theater's Hall of Fame.
This is an alphabetized list of musicians notable for playing or having played jazz piano. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic capabilities. [1
Roberts was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. [1] His mother was a gospel singer who had gone blind as a teenager, and his father was a longshoreman. [2] Blind since age five due to glaucoma and cataracts, [3] Roberts started learning the piano at age five by picking out notes on the instrument at his church until his parents bought a piano when he was eight. [2]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; August 7, 1935 [1] – December 5, 1977), [2] known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments.
David Owen Mackay (March 24, 1932 – July 29, 2020) [1] was an American jazz pianist, singer-composer with roots in the works of Art Tatum, Bud Powell, and Bill Evans, who favored the standards of the 1940s and 1950s and the bossa novas of Luíz Eça, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and João Gilberto when performing.
More opportunities followed, including playing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. [5] Paravicini's first album Echoes of the Sounds to Be was released on 27 September 2006. His official biography, In the Key of Genius by Adam Ockelford, was published in the UK by Hutchinson (ISBN 978-0091796129) on 3 May 2007.
Tatum also extended jazz piano's vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his initial stride influences, and established new ground through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality. Tatum grew up in Toledo, Ohio , where he began playing piano professionally and had his own radio program, rebroadcast nationwide, while still in his ...