Okay, how about the best keyboardist?

[malthaussen]

I'll start off with a little Jelly Roll:

Now, who do you all like best at tickling the ivories?

-- Mal

[longship]

1. No contest. Glenn Gould!

I might also nominate Sviatoslav Richter...

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. Easy one, Kyle Hollingsworth

From String Cheese Incident

[GWC58]

3. This might not be what you had in mind, but

I've always been partial to the late Keith Emerson.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

5. I thought of Keith, too

And Rick Wakeman,

[lastlib]

6. Keith Emerson. Period. End of discussion.

Behind him, Rick Wakeman and Elton John. No others need apply.

[GWC58]

7. I saw ELP in 1977 @ the then

Baltimore Civic Center. They were fantastic!👍 Carl Palmer was not too shabby on percussion, either.

[Mendocino]

4. Art Tatum

One night in NYC, Fats Waller a great keyboardist himself, was performing in a club. In came Art Tatum. Waller stopped and said " I'm just a piano player, but God is in the house now."

[Metsie Casey]

8. I agree

Keith Emerson. Rip

[Metsie Casey]

9. Brent Mydland from the grateful dead too. And..

Bruce Hornsby