Randy Weston ~ Similar Artists

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Jason Moran - 100% match to Randy Weston

Houston, Texas, USA. Although gifted with a prodigious technique, pianist Moran, who studied with Andrew Hill and Muhal Richard Abrams, chooses to subordinate his playing to the needs of the group. In performance, he urges his musical colleagues along with his constant... Read more

Sonny Clark - 85% match to Randy Weston

Conrad Yeatis Clark, 21 July 1931, Herminie, near Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 13 January 1963, New York City, New York, USA. An underrated piano genius of the hard-bop era, Clark cast a glorious ray of sunshine over some of the Blue Note Records label's most memorable... Read more

McCoy Tyner - 84% match to Randy Weston

Alfred McCoy Tyner, 11 December 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Beginning in his early teens, Tyner studied piano formally for several years before joining the jazztet led by Benny Golson and Art Farmer in 1959. The following year he joined John Coltrane, with whom he had... Read more

Abdullah Ibrahim - 75% match to Randy Weston

Adolph Johannes Brand, 9 October 1934, Cape Town, South Africa. Ibrahim began playing piano as a small child, learning church music and hearing many other forms, including jazz, from radio and records. Known initially by the name Dollar Brand, he began his professional career in... Read more

Horace Silver - 72% match to Randy Weston

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, 2 September 1928, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Silver studied piano and tenor saxophone at school, settling on the former instrument for his professional career. Early influences included Portuguese folk music (from his father), blues and bop. He... Read more

Steve Lacy - 56% match to Randy Weston

Steven Norman Lackritz, 23 July 1934, New York City, New York, USA, d. 4 June 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Few modern jazzmen have chosen the soprano saxophone as their main instrument; Steve Lacy was probably unique in choosing it as his only one. Reputed to be the player... Read more

Art Tatum - 54% match to Randy Weston

13 October 1909, Toledo, Ohio, USA, d. 5 November 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA. Born into a musical family, Tatum was handicapped from birth by impaired sight. Blind in one eye and only partially sighted in the other, he nevertheless studied piano formally and learned to... Read more

Bud Powell - 54% match to Randy Weston

Earl Rudolph Powell, 27 September 1924, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA, d. 31 July 1966, New York City, New York, USA. After learning to play the piano in the classical tradition while still a child, Powell began working around New York's Coney Island, where he played in a... Read more