Artist	Song
Eric Reed	Pure Imagination
from Pure Imagination (1998)
Eddie Harris & Les McCann	Compared to What
from Atlantic Jazz: Soul (2005)
Ralph Sutton	'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
from A Piano Anthology - From Jelly Roll Morton to Bill Evans (1994)
George Shearing	Lullaby of Birdland
from The Definitive George Shearing (2002)
Kenny Drew	Polka Dots and Moonbeams
from Kenny Drew and His Progressive Piano (2005)
Sonny Clark	Speak Low
from Sonny's Crib (1998)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba	Blue in Green
from The Blessing (1991)
John Lewis	Django
from Evolution (2008)
Joe Zawinul	Del Sasser
from The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream / Money in the Pocket (2005)
Meade "Lux" Lewis	Honky Tonk Train Blues
from Jazz At The Phil - The Complete Jazz At the Philharmonic On Verve (1944-1949) (1998)
Paul Bley	Started
from Open, to Love (2000)
Marian McPartland & Renee Rosnes	It's You or No One
from Just Friends (2006)
Jess Stacy	The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
from A Piano Anthology - From Jelly Roll Morton to Bill Evans (1994)
Michel Petrucciani	Days of Wine and Roses
from Michel Petrucciani (2004)
Abdullah Ibrahim	Water from an Ancient Well
from Cape Town Revisited (2000)
Wynton Kelly Trio	Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
from Kelly Blue (2006)
Duke Jordan Trio	They Can't Take That Away from Me
from Trio & Quintet (1994)
James P. Johnson	Carolina Shout
from Snowy Morning Blues (1991)
Dave McKenna	Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
from Solo Piano (1994)
Tord Gustavsen Trio	Going Places
from Changing Places (2003)
Eliane Elias	But Not for Me
from Something for You (2008)
Geri Allen	Dark Prince
from The Gathering (1998)
Horace Parlan	No Blues
from No Blues (1992)
sergey kuryokhin	The Rules of the Game
from The Ways of Freedom (2004)
Stephen Scott	Behind the Scenes
from Aminah's Dream (2004)

Comment:

A piano is a melodious mirror of a jazz player's soul, and there are as many pianistic voices to be heard in the jazz universe as there are sets of fingers falling across the keys. Panamanian piano prince Danilo Perez mixes Monkish chord clusters with a little South American groove juice on "Bright Mississippi." Gershwin gets a new coat of paint when Brazil-born virtuoso Eliane Elias lends a bright, modern glint to the old standard "But Not for Me." And when Wynton Marsalis alumnus Eric Reed deconstructs a tune from 1971's [i]Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory[/i] soundtrack (as famously sung by a regally clad Gene Wilder) into a piece of minimalist magic, you know you've witnessed a feat of "Pure Imagination."

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