swap_horiz Red Garland Alternatives

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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader renowned for his sophisticated arrangements and distinc...

Composer Classic Piano Swing

9.9 Brilliant

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Count Basie

Count Basie was an American jazz musician primarily known for his innovative piano playing and leadership of the Kansas...

Classic Piano Swing Big Band

9.5 Brilliant

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson was a highly acclaimed Canadian jazz pianist renowned for his exceptional technical skill and rhythmic pr...

Virtuoso Classic Piano Swing

9.5 Brilliant

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Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole was an American jazz pianist and singer who led the King Cole Trio from 1937 and hosted a national televis...

Classic Piano Swing Vocals

9.2 Excellent

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Horace Silver

Horace Silver was an American pianist and composer, a hard bop founder who co-led the Jazz Messengers and wrote Song for...

Composer Classic Piano Hard Bop

9.1 Excellent

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Erroll Garner

Erroll Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer whose 1954 ballad Misty became a standard and whose 1955 Concert...

Classic Popular Solo Piano

9.0 Excellent

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Paul Chambers

Paul Chambers was an American jazz bassist whose arco solos and steady swing made him a key member of Miles Davis's grou...

Bass Classic Hard Bop Miles Band

9.0 Excellent

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Philly Joe Jones

Philly Joe Jones was an American jazz drummer known for crisp bebop phrasing and for his role in Miles Davis's first gre...

Classic Hard Bop Bebop Drums

8.9 Great

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Earl Hines

Earl Hines was a U.S. pianist and bandleader whose trumpet-like right hand reshaped jazz piano, especially with his 1928...

Classic Piano Swing Bandleader

8.7 Great

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Hank Jones

Hank Jones was an American pianist whose career ran from swing to modern jazz, including the 1958 recording of Cannonbal...

Classic Piano Swing Bebop

8.7 Great

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams was a U.S. pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote for Andy Kirk in the 1930s and later mentored beb...

Composer Classic Piano Swing

8.5 Great

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Wynton Kelly

Wynton Kelly was a Jamaican-born American pianist who played on Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue and led influentia...

Classic Piano Swing Hard Bop

8.4 Great

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Tommy Flanagan

Tommy Flanagan was an American pianist from Detroit who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald for years and played on John Coltran...

Classic Piano Swing Bebop

8.4 Great

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Jimmy Cobb

Jimmy Cobb was an American jazz drummer best known for playing on Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue and for his eleg...

Classic Swing Hard Bop Drums

8.4 Great

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Fletcher Henderson

Fletcher Henderson was a U.S. pianist, arranger, and bandleader whose 1920s orchestra helped create the big-band swing v...

Classic Arranger Piano Swing

8.3 Great

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George Coleman

George Coleman is an American tenor saxophonist known for post-bop work with Miles Davis's 1963 quintet and many later r...

Classic Post Bop Hard Bop Tenor Sax

8.2 Great

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Cedar Walton

Cedar Walton was an American pianist and composer who played with Art Blakey in the 1960s and wrote standards such as Bo...

Composer Classic Piano Hard Bop

8.2 Great

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Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson was a U.S. pianist whose elegant swing style featured in Benny Goodman's integrated trio and quartet during...

Classic Elegant Piano Swing

8.1 Great

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Mulgrew Miller

Mulgrew Miller was an American pianist known for work with Woody Shaw and Art Blakey, and for leading Wingspan from the...

Modern Classic Piano Post Bop

7.9 Good

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Marian McPartland

Marian McPartland was a British-born jazz pianist and broadcaster who hosted NPR's Piano Jazz from 1978 for more than th...

Classic Radio Piano Swing

7.9 Good