To hear why this band was so revered, check out Cropper's sneaky lines and Jones' characteristically terse, carefully chorded piano solo.

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Hornsby is currently working on a musical while wrapping up a solo piano tour.

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Somewhere toward the middle of that spectrum are Claude Debussy's two books of Etudes, for solo piano.

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O'Riley has handpicked some of the most compelling popular songs of our day and, like Liszt, he creates solo piano versions of them.

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Nineteenth-century classical composers were great fans of recomposition, some of it flamboyantly transformational, as in Franz Liszt's florid transcriptions for solo piano of Franz Schubert's songs.

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Demanding and no doubt a perfectionist, Previn's latest performance is on the new solo jazz piano CD, Alone.

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Originally a solo studio project by multi-instrumentalist Ezra Feinberg (formerly of Piano Magic), Citay eventually evolved into a full band after accumulating contributing musicians and is still growing.

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Her first solo album in three years, it puts all those ivories to good use as a piano orchestra.

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The first orchestral music calling specifically for valve horns dates from 1835, and the first important solo work for valve horn was Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, written in 1849.

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Hiromi begins the session with a solo performance of her original tune "The Tom and Jerry Show, " a piece of stride piano inspired by the endless, frenetic chase between the famous cartoon cat and mouse.

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