Here are mine (more than 5, I know, but oh well...): Johnathan Cain (Journey), Dennis DeYoung (Styx), Elton John, Sarah McLachlan, Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon), and by no means last in my heart (LOL), Josh Groban!

Andrew McMahon.

Elton John
Barry Manilow
Jordan Rudess(Dream Theater)
Billy Joel
Dennis DeYoung
Paul McCartney

Ok, it's more than 5! ;)

OMG I forgot Barry Manilow! LOL oops!

Ray Charles
Barry Manilow
Elton John
Lennon/McCartney
Gregg Rolie
Jonathan Cain
Dennis DeYoung
Alicia Keys (not a big fan, but I think she plays very well)
Sarah McLachlan

Alicia Keys
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles
Billy Joel
Norah Jones

Andrew McMahon.

Yes.

How could I forget the great Stevie Wonder. :confused: :eek:

Also Little Richard and Christie McVie.

How could I forget the great Stevie Wonder. :confused: :eek:

Also Little Richard and Christie McVie.

OMG same here...and Billy Joel too, for heaven's sake LOL! Kinda like with the guitarists--I like toooo many to remember them all at once! :crazy:

Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and other old jazz pianists.

Here are the lists of pianists:

1. Barry Manilow
2. Duke Ellington
3. Billy Joel
4. Jerry Lee Lewis
5. Roger Williams
6. Richard Carpenter
7. Elton John
8. Liberace
9. Ferrante & Teicher
10. Ray Charles

Rufus Wainwright
Beethoven
Debussy (he was AMAZING)
Ben Folds
Fiona Apple

OMG same here...and Billy Joel too, for heaven's sake LOL! Kinda like with the guitarists--I like toooo many to remember them all at once! :crazy:


See I forgot Billy Joel! :wave:

Ray Charles
Stevie Wonder
Freddie Mercury although he wasn't really known for playing the piano
Billy Joel

Billy Joel
Elton John

Billy Joel
Elton John
Stevie Wonder
Alicia Keys

I agree with many of y'all's choices but there is one pianist/organist that no one has mentioned that I just love to listen to... Rick Wakeman of Yes! OMG he has a PH.D. in Musicology and he could play a piano or organ that could make you cry! Another pianist/organist that I think is the bomb is Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I also like the stylings of Verden Allen of Mott the Hoople. The keyboards in these groups were tight, lending themselves to a sounds so phat it defied catgorization in the music world. These three groups were a genre unto themselves IMHO. And part of the reason was the keyboardists, adding a classical flavor to rock and roll. Just listen to Yes's "Roundabout", ELP's "Pictures at an Exhibition", or anything off the Mott the Hoople Album "All the Young Dudes" and you will see what I mean.