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Playing the Piano

A celebration of piano players, famous and not so famous, as they practice their artistry.

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  • Duke Ellington
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Elliott Carter
  • James Merrill
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Nat "King" Cole
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Nat King Cole
  • Sammy Cahn (with Jimmy Van Heusen)
  • Liberace
  • The Way of Life of the Northern Negro: Untitled
  • Willie "the Lion" Smith
  • Oscar Hammerstein I
  • Irving Berlin
  • Mary Lou Williams
  • Roy Meriwether, 1992
  • George Gershwin at Piano
  • Oscar Peterson, 1975
  • Woman in Red Dress at Piano
  • Charles Brown, 1995
  • Ray Bryant, 1979
  • McCoy Tyner, 1990
  • Stevie Wonder in concert at the Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.
  • Stevie Wonder Thought Shares
  • Photographic print of Duke Ellington, Alfredo Gustar, and Billy Strayhorn
  • Horace Silver, 1977
  • Shirley Scott, 1976
  • Billy Taylor, 1993
  • Ray Charles
  • Hank Jones, 1975
  • Carol Fran, 1992
  • Buddy Montgomery, 1980
  • Peace Advocates
  • Fats Waller
  • Charles Palmer
  • Photograph of Una Mae Carlisle
  • George Gershwin
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Chess Life
  • John Lennon: Grand Piano Gift Bag
  • Gershwin
  • Fats Domino
  • Vladimir Horowitz
  • Piano Player
  • Duke Ellington - Roxbury, Mass. - 1970
  • Ray Charles - Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. - 1980
  • Don Pullen, 1993
  • Bud Powell
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Aaron Copland

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