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Your Favorite Living Jazz Pianists

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By Michael Ricci
November 24, 2022
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All About Jazz member votes were tabulated and this list represents our favorite living jazz pianists. Fully transparent and easily verifiable, All About Jazz's living pianists poll was conducted during the 2022 calendar year running from April to November. We would like to thank every member who participated in creating this impressive list (200 total!) for the next generation of jazz enthusiasts to discover.

Herbie Hancock

Keith Jarrett

Brad Mehldau

Kenny Barron

Bill Charlap

Fred Hersch

Ahmad Jamal

Vijay Iyer

Jason Moran

Craig Taborn

Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Hiromi

Emmet Cohen

Gerald Clayton

Matthew Shipp

George Cables

Eliane Elias

Renee Rosnes

Kris Davis

Robert Glasper

Benny Green

Diana Krall

Carla Bley

Myra Melford

Danilo Pérez

Abdullah Ibrahim

Cyrus Chestnut

Monty Alexander

Ethan Iverson

Jon Batiste

Tigran Hamasyan

Marilyn Crispell

Bobo Stenson

Chucho Valdes

Aaron Parks

Larry Goldings

Helen Sung

Marc Copland

Alan Broadbent

Aki Takase

Enrico Pieranunzi

Geoffrey Keezer

Bob James

Joey Calderazzo

Sylvie Courvoisier

Joey Alexander

Bill Cunliffe

Alexander von Schlippenbach

Billy Childs

John Medeski

Kenny Werner

Eddie Palmieri

JoAnne Brackeen

Dave Grusin

David Hazeltine

Marcus Roberts

Stefano Bollani

Satoko Fujii

Ran Blake

Fabian Almazan

Aaron Diehl

Orrin Evans

Marcin Wasilewski

Irene Schweizer

Eric Reed

Makoto Ozone

Yoko Miwa

David Virelles

Christian Sands

Jacky Terrasson

Marc Cary

Michel Camilo

Sullivan Fortner

Tord Gustavsen

James Francies

Aaron Goldberg

Patrice Rushen

Bugge Wesseltoft

Omar Sosa

Shai Maestro

Allyn Johnson

Aruán Ortiz

Alexander Hawkins

Gary Versace

Ben Paterson

Bill Laurance

George Colligan

Christian Jacob

Eldar Djangirov

Harold Danko

Taylor Eigsti

Michael Wollny

Steve Kuhn

David Benoit

Harry Connick, Jr.

Jamie Saft

Cooper-Moore

Jeb Patton

Ramsey Lewis

100

Uri Caine

101

Larry Fuller

102

Andy Milne

103

Amina Claudine Myers

104

Luis Perdomo

105

Laurence Hobgood

106

Toshiko Akiyoshi

107

Bruce Barth

108

Norah Jones

109

Russell Ferrante

110

Nik Bärtsch

111

Angelica Sanchez

112

Kaja Draksler

113

Edward Simon

114

Gwilym Simcock

115

Lisa Hilton

116

Jon Cowherd

117

Bill Carrothers

118

Pete Malinverni

119

Miki Yamanaka

120

Lynne Arriale

121

Anthony Davis

122

Kevin Hays

123

Josh Nelson

124

John Beasley

125

Dave Burrell

126

Fergus McCreadie

127

David Kikoski

128

Joachim Kuhn

129

Oliver Jones

130

Connie Han

131

Otmaro Ruiz

132

Lafayette Gilchrist

133

Baptiste Trotignon

134

Alan Pasqua

135

Bernie Senensky

136

Brian Culbertson

137

John di Martino

138

Magda Mayas

139

Brian Simpson

140

Dan Nimmer

141

Dan Tepfer

142

Colin Vallon

143

Martial Solal

144

Joe Alterman

145

Richie Beirach

146

Anthony Coleman

147

Keith Brown

148

Spike Wilner

149

Eri Yamamoto

150

Jean-Michel Pilc

151

Amina Figarova

152

Arturo O'Farrill

153

Tamir Hendelman

154

Mike Holober

155

Tim Brey

156

Emil Viklicky

157

Henry Hey

158

Stevie Wonder

159

Patricia Barber

160

Tania Maria

161

Hal Galper

162

Bobby Lyle

163

Tedd Firth

164

Jeff Lorber

165

Simon Nabatov

166

Glenn Zaleski

167

Bill O'Connell

168

Michael Kanan

169

Roger Kellaway

170

Marcus Johnson

171

Marianne Trudel

172

Matt Mitchell

173

Ted Rosenthal

174

Joel A. Martin

175

Sam Harris

176

Dick Hyman

177

Champian Fulton

178

Wayne Horvitz

179

Agusti Fernandez

180

Elchin Shirinov

181

Peter Martin

182

Robert Irving III

183

Bill Anschell

184

Jan Hammer

185

Eyolf Dale

186

Kate Wyatt

187

Eve Risser

188

Giovanni Guidi

189

Kevin Bales

190

Ólafur Arnalds

191

Randy Porter

192

Chihiro Yamanaka

193

Oleg Akkuratov

194

Brian Marsella

195

Luke Carlos O'Reilly

196

Jeff Colella

197

Robert Redd

198

David Helbock

199

Sean Fyfe

200

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