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John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Early life [ edit ] John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois , and after his parents' divorce moved with his mother, a trained singer, to Albuquerque, New Mexico when ...
Instrument (s) Piano, keyboards. Years active. 1980–present. Labels. Windham Hill, Resonance, Mack Avenue Records. Website. johnbeasleymusic .com. John Rule Beasley (born October 10, 1958), better known as John Beasley, is a jazz pianist, bandleader, and producer of music for film and television.
John Lennon played various guitars with the Beatles and during his solo career, most notably the Rickenbacker (four variants thereof) and Epiphone Casino, along with various Gibson and Fender guitars. His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he also composed many songs.
John Esposito (born 1953) is an American jazz pianist of advanced bebop tendencies. Known as a composer for his own groups and a versatile sideman capable of all styles from stride piano to free improvisation , he is a pianist highly influenced by modernism ( Bartók in particular), and capable of playing off of several rhythmic and harmonic ...
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John Davis (born October 22, 1957) is an American classical pianist, concert performer, recording artist, and historian. Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Davis now lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has specialized in reviving the forgotten music of several 19th Century African-American pianists ...
O'Conor currently holds the position of professor of piano and distinguished visiting artist at Shenandoah Conservatory (near Washington, D.C.), and retired as director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music in September 2010 although he continues to teach there regularly. Since 1997, he has taken on the mantle of Kempff, and gives the annual ...
John Livingston Eaton (born May 29, 1934, Washington, D.C.) is an American pianist, musicologist, humorist, educator and interpreter of jazz and American popular music. He is "considered one of the foremost interpreters of American music."