He was a singer, a songwriter, a piano player, a failed painter, a highly successful and systematic drinker, a gradual wreck, and a star.

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And here's someone who many people don't know for his proficiency on this instrument, and many say he was a better piano player than he was a singer, and that's the great Nat King Cole, who falls number 24 on this list.

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Lamarr and Antheil proposed using a punched-paper roll like that of a player piano.

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Her singing is fragile but fetching, her Czech accent completely convincing, and she's even a halfway decent piano player.

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His piano player is Ariacne Trujillo, a woman who often chats during songs with Alvaro Benavides, the bassist.

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He was hired as its piano player in 1950 and only became a vocalist later -- staying for more than 60 years, generally as its lead tenor.

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The first wine I encountered was Pommery Champagne, stacked in a pile of boxes across from an automatic player piano, which kept unspooling the same unidentifiable song.

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There simply had never been anything quite like it before, as the horn player ditched the harmonic foundation traditionally provided by piano or guitar and ventured forth with just a drummer and bassist in tow.

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