Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research)

Posted by: squeak_D

Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/28/04 07:44 PM

Need some help! Writing a college paper and I need some good sites on famous keyboard players. Anyone have any good site suggestions or names I should use?

Thanks,
Squeak
Posted by: BillyWa

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/28/04 08:40 PM

Not sure what type of keyboard player you are looking for but here is some info on some progressive rock players.
http://yescography.tripod.com/home.htm

This will take you to a site about the band Yes. Check out links to Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes - these links lead to lots of other famous keyboard players of the 70s. Also a web search for Nick Mason will give you a great deal on this great Pink Floyd keyboard player.

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Posted by: squeak_D

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/28/04 08:47 PM

Thanks! Just the info I was looking for

Squeak
Posted by: DonM

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/28/04 09:32 PM

www.donnypesce.com

DonM
Posted by: Dnj

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/28/04 09:38 PM

hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Posted by: squeak_D

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 06:54 AM

Actually Don, I can use you if I choose I was planning on mentioning Scott Yee. He has a really good education in music and would be a good example of great keyboard player.

Squeak
Posted by: msutliff

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 07:08 AM



Hey, it could happen!!

-mike
Posted by: cassp

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 07:23 AM

Excellent, Mike. We really don't have a magazine that features arrangers. GB has a few mags that do a better job of featuring the boards, but the USA still thinks we're playing with toys. I'm a charter member of Keyboard and have ALL the issuses. But, I would switch subscriptions in a minute if we could do something like your idea. (would have to change the name, obviously).

Thanks
Posted by: Starkeeper

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 09:13 AM

LOL. That's hilarious.
Jimmy Smith, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff. Jazz organists.
Starkeeper
Posted by: Uncle Dave

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 12:29 PM

Great mock-up, Mike !


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Posted by: msutliff

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 01:05 PM

Thanks Uncle Dave (Cassp and Starkeeper too),

After reading Cassp's post, I tried swapping out the title Keyboard and replace it with Arranger but I couldn't find anything that looked authentic.


-mike

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Posted by: Dnj

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 01:34 PM

hahahaha hey Mike great job as usual....
I need a haircut too

Some day maybe i will be honered by a magazine
Posted by: kbrkr

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 02:17 PM

That is just Toooo Funny.....thanks for the laugh!!


P.S. you might want to research Bill Evans the father of Jazz Piano perfection!
Posted by: acctjm

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 06:07 PM

KEYBOARD magazine has a review of the Yamaha PSR3000 in the December (current) 2004 issue. Look for Alicia Keys on the cover.
Posted by: Dnj

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/29/04 06:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by acctjm:
KEYBOARD magazine has a review of the Yamaha PSR3000 in the December (current) 2004 issue. Look for Alicia Keys on the cover.


http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML/009446.html
Posted by: acctjm

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 11/30/04 04:39 AM

DOH!
Posted by: captain Russ

Re: Need Help! (famouskeyboard player research) - 12/01/04 07:38 AM

Squeak..

I've mentioned it before, and it's a book, not web accessible, but "Reading Jazz" by Robert Gottlieb is booked as "a gathering of autobiography, reportage and criticism". It contains information on most old school players, all the way back to Jelly Roll Morton, Willy "The Lion" Smith, Mary Lou Williams and many others. It's the best read on jazz and jazz piano players I've ever found.

Hope that helps.

Russ