Focussing more on keyboards/synths rather than piano... Here are a few that I like in no particular order:

Prince
Tony Macalpine
Jordan Rudess
Dr. Fink
Vince Dicola

Who do yall like?

Marcus Miller
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Mint Condition (Stokely, Jeffrey, etc.)
Meshell
George Duke
Greg Phillinganes
Patrice Rushen
Jane Child
Joseph Wooten
Demonte
Jon Brion
Nikka Costa
Lisa Coleman
Virgil Stratford
Damien Snead

A few others, I'm sure...

Sly Stone
Billy Preston
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Ben Folds

Billy Preston x 10
...

George Duke
Herbie Hancock
Greg Phillinganes
Jimmy Smith
Matt Fink/Jimmy Jam/Prince/whoever it was that played on the records
Joe Zawinul
R.A.D.
David Foster
Donnie Hathaway
Champion Jack Dupree
Little Richard
D'Angelo
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In addition to some already listed:
larry dunn(EWF)
winston stewart(barkays)
milan williams R.I.P(commodores)
danny thomas,felton pilate(confunkshun)
keith crouch(brandy,ray j.,lalah hathaway,swv)
mark cardenas and co.(jesse johnson's revue)
ricky"freeze"smith(morris day,vanessa williams)

Keith & Kenneth Crouch







Michael Bearden







Bobby Sparks .
Recently in Roy Hargrove's RH FACTOR ... dude's dangerous !

Sending out an APB for chuckii booker and bryan loren!

phunkdaddy said:

These were the 2 smokin' joints of 1992 .

http://www.youtube.com/wa...i%20booker

the keyboardist for the doors, cant remember his name.

phunkdaddy said:

Slick list !







Kevin Kendrick(s) from Cameo .
I've seen him play live and that shit was overwhelming .
Loudest and impressive wall of sound which i experienced and that flowed over the hip grinding audience .
Kevin recently toured with Madonna , and with Outkast , along with Cameo-bassist Aaron Mills , who played the studio-bassline for Miss Jackson .








Gregory Johnson , showing his synth-tools .









Rahni P. Harris (left) , Shawn Sandridge (2nd left) & Chris Jones (3rd left)from Dayton









Charles Cedell Carter & Delburt Taylor ( both in the middle )



Charles with his brother Sam Carter ( both on the far right )










James "Mtume" Heath & Philip Field ( top row )










... brother Billy Nunn ( with his wife , Bev )







Robert Brookins ...




... & his very first project with brother Michael , on the left .




... Robert on the far left ...

... & also in the SC Band played drummer Rayford Griffin , whose multi-instrumental brother Reggie played some amazing synthwork and later had much involvement in Chaka's re-vamp of Prince's I Feel For You



" I'm gonna B-Mice-Elf "



" MOVE ! "



























Levi Ruffin














Michael Winston ( far left above ) with the BK's











Jeff Bova ...



... with Change ...




... Herbie's Rockit Band










Roger Sause ( above in the middle ) from Shock .
His brother synthed along on the Waves lp . The album-opener , Elecrotophonic Phunk is a blasting wave of synthpower .












Thelonius Coakley ( far left )





















1982 : Featuring Cameo


Featuring Mtume-members



1981 : featuring Marcus Miller & .....

... NARD !




















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brownsugar said:

Ray Manzarek

Larry Williams




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Wow 100mph! Thanks for the all the cool info and pics!

my choices are rather obvious and have already been stated

100MPH said:

yeah thats him

I can't believe I forgot Radiohead's Thom and Johnny...

Hey 100mph when i was making my list i was trying to think of the
name of cameo's keyboard player and i could not remember his name.
You are right kevin kendrick was sick. I was also thinking of
slave's keyboard players but i didn't know them by name. I was only
familiar with bandmates mark adams,mark hicks,steve arrington,and
steve washington. Love the old pics man. Brings back memories. I also
remember kendrick playing on outkast joint hey ya and a couple of other
outkast songs.
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Missy On Weed- you guyz ever heard of her? Oh! She is just 2 cool

Prince
Stevie Wonder
Biz Markie
Lisa Coleman
Dr. Fink
Michael Delorenzo
Elton John
Patrice Rushen

coolcat said:

phunkdaddy said:

Monte









David Frank ( left )













Eumir produced the following artists and also performed on some :

1 .





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3.





In Kleeer , Norman Durham & Woody Cunningham ( in the middle ) jammed the synths




4.



Juicy started as a 4 or 5-piece band in 1982
Synth/sax-lady Katreese Barnes from Juicy already had sung lead on Deodato's "Keep On Moving" and "Happy Hour" .
Katreese and her brother Jerry re-appeared on Deodato's Motion-album in 1984 and the year after they released as a duo now , their second album .



With this album they scored a solid hit called " Sugarfree " , later in hiphop sampled by AZ in "Sugar Hill" .

In 1987 , their last album appeared and was partly produced by Deodato and partly by Lenny White , who used his alter-ego name , Flare Funston .



It contains fine tracks like "After Loving You" and "Serious" , featuring Chaka's brother and Jamaica Boy , Mark Stevens .

After that album both Katreese & Jerry went to do guestwork .
Katreese can be heard in recent reordings from Hiram Bullock and has currently her own site







Jerry toured for a few years with Chic .
















Khris Kellow ( left ) played with Kleeer on their GetReady-album from 1982 .
Kleeer had Mic Murphy from The System as stage-manager , and in 1983 Mic and David Frank produced the group Attitude whch also featured Cindy Mizelle on lead-vocals .












They had a whole synth-army !


Ernesto Phillips


George Phillips


Kyode Adeyamo


Louie Oxley


Marvin Ennis ( on the left ) .
Marvin released his own project , also produced by Starpoint's producer , Lionel Job















Kevin McCord ( second from right , next to Al Hudson on the far right ) .
Kevin added a lot of synth-spice to the groupsound .
Some hot flava's :
- Can I
- Mr. Groove
- Sugar Rock


















Hubert Eaves,III . ( on the left )
Hubert and James "D-Train" Williams created a unique , powerfull , New York-based synth-sound .
During the succesfull era of D-Train hits , Hubert released another project in the that same sound-area :



Another good example of that sound is the rare-album from Network .














Brothers Michael "Kashif" Jones and Paul Laurence Jones












Attala Zane Giles ( on the left / Deco , Osborne & Giles , Switch )















Rex Salas ( far left / Tease , Deco , Gary Taylor , Musical Director on Janet's "Janet" & "Velvet Rope" Tour )













Barry Eastmond .
( Anita Baker , Freddie Jackson , Will Downing , etc )










The recruits from Maze





- Sam Porter ( 4th from the right )
- Phillip Woo ( 3rd from the right / also played with Roy Ayers )





- William "willpower" Bryant , III ( in the middle , top row )





Wayne "Ziggy" Linsey ( hubby of Lynn Fiddmont Linsey )




























http://www.myspace.com/th...roductions



I discovered Lesette's appearance first on Tom Browne's album with Funkin' For Jamaica .
She also played the years after that album on a few projects of Roy Ayers .