Ray Bryant
- MatchRay Bryant
- 100%Junior Mance
- 65%Sonny Clark
- 63%Enrico Pieranunzi
- 60%Hank Jones
- 55%Tommy Flanagan
- 54%Horace Parlan
- 52%Red Garland
- 51%The Three Sounds
- 49%Bud Powell
- 49%Oscar Peterson
Biography
Raphael Bryant, 24 December 1931, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Coming from a musical family gave Bryant an advantage - his mother played piano and his sister sang in a gospel choir. He started on bass, but passed it to his older brother Tom, in order to play piano. The Bryant Brothers became the house band for Philadelphias Blue Note Club, where they played with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. It was these contacts that led to recordings in the mid-50s with Davis, Sonny Rollins and as... Read more