What can be expressed with a piano? Friedrich Nietzsche spent the last
years of his life composing piano music and he expressed wide-ranging
emotions, beauty and force. Nietzsche had said enough with words
(which so many of his readers misconstrued); he would now let the
piano keys speak for him. The piano was his final saving grace.
Some recommended recordings:
Friedrich Nietzsche: Piano Works (Talent Records, 31).
Elena Letnanova (Piano), Kuniko Nagata (Violin).
Solo Piano Recital: Teatro la Fenice Venizia (Golden Years of New Jazz, 21).
Sun Ra (Piano).
Mingus Plays Piano (Impulse! 217).
Charles Mingus (Piano).
Jimmy Durante at the Copacabana [1961] (Collectables 696319).
Jimmy Durante (Piano, Vocals) + band.
Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo (DIW, 824).
Sun Ra (Piano, Keyboards) + arkestra (June Tyson on Vocals).
Jazz in Silhouette (Evidence, 22012-2).
Sun Ra (Piano) + arkestra.
At Montreux Jazz Festival [1990] (Ausfahrt, 3007).
Ofra Haza (Vocals) + band.
Takhti (Oriental Star Agencies, 1994).
Aziz Mian (Vocals, Harmonium).
Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse! 228).
Alice Coltrane (Piano, Harp) + band.
Big Bands of Hollywood (LaserLight, 15 767).
Desi Arnaz & Chico Marx Orchestras.
Charles Mingus Quintet with Max Roach (Original Jazz Classics, 4402).
Charles Mingus (Bass) + quintet (Max Roach on Drums).
Extensions (Blue Note, 37646).
McCoy Tyner (Piano), Alice Coltrane (Harp), Wayne Shorter
+ Gary Bartz (Sax), Elvin Jones (Drums), Ron Carter (Bass).
Shri Durga (Six Degrees Records, 657036-1009-2).
dj Cheb i Sabbah (Producer), Mala Ganguly (Vocals) + vocalists & musicians.
The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt (Golden Years of New Jazz, GY 1).
Sun Ra Arkestra, The Cairo Jazz Band + The Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble (Salah Ragab on Drums).
Concerto Piccolo (Berlin Classics, 1789).
Gudrun Hinze (Piccolo, Flute) + ensemble.
The Far East Suite (RCA Bluebird, 7640-2-RB).
Duke Ellington (Piano) + band.
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (Original Jazz Classics, 645).
Duke Ellington (Piano) + band.
Latin American Suite (Original Jazz Classics, 469).
Duke Ellington (Piano) + band.
It's a Man's World (Warner UK edition, 1995).
Cher (Vocals) + band.
Ella Fitzgerald (LazerLight, 17 109).
Ella Fitzgerald (Vocals) with the Tommy Flanagan Trio.
Thanks for the Memories (MCA, 10611).
Bob Hope (Vocals) + orchestra.
Almaz (dB Productions, 41).
Almaz Yebio (Vocals) + band.
Hell in a Handbasket (Sony, 193273).
Meat Loaf (Vocals) + band.
Chinese Democracy (Geffen,12356).
Guns n' Roses: Axl Rose (Vocals, Piano) + band.
Bob Dylan at Budokan (Columbia, 36067).
Bob Dylan (Vocals) + band.
Empire Burlesque (Columbia, 467840).
Bob Dylan (Vocals) + band.
Peace and Noise (Arista Records, 18986-2).
Patti Smith (Vocals) + band.
Zoning (Smithsonian Folkways, SF-40811).
Mary Lou Williams (Piano) -- trio work.
Marian McPartland Plays the Music of Mary Lou Williams (Concord Jazz, 4605).
Marian McPartland -- trio work.
Soldier (Arista Records, 251 160).
Iggy Pop (Vocals) + band -- includes the impeccable "Mr Dynamite" &
"I'm a Conservative"
Thelonious Monk in Italy (Original Jazz Classics, 4882).
Thelonious Monk (Piano) + band.
Plays Duke Ellington (Riverside, 200242).
Thelonious Monk (Piano) -- trio work.
The Union (Decca Records).
Elton John and Leon Russell (Pianos, Vocals) + band.
The Fox (MCA, 10497).
Elton John (Piano) + band.
Sleeping with the Past (MCA, 6321).
Elton John (Piano) + band.
What a Wonderful World (RCA, ND88310).
Louis Armstrong (Vocals) + band -- includes "The Creator Has a Master
Plan (Peace)" [Leon Thomas] & "Give Peace a Chance" [John Lennon]
Soul on Top (Verve, B0001978-02).
James Brown (Vocals) with the Louie Bellson Orchestra.
LotusFlow3r (NPG Records, 09549).
Prince (Voice, Instruments).
The Rainbow Children (NPG Records, 70004-3).
Prince (Voice, Instruments) + band.
