Latest about Keyboard Players
“I wrote it in my garage, in my house in California”: Bruce Hornsby plays an emotive orchestral version of The Way It Is in BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room
Released in 1986 and sampled by Tupac Shakur, the song has become a timeless classic
“Barely two days into the new year, I get a call from Steve Lukather”: Greg Phillinganes is back in Toto ahead of their North American tour
Drummer Shannon Forrest is also back in the fold
Jazz pianist Les McCann, whose work was sampled extensively by hip-hop artists, has died, aged 88
McCann was also one of the first jazz musicians to embrace the use of the synthesizer
"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life
"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?
“Not what I expected at all”: here’s what happened when Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess was asked to play along to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind, a song he’d never heard before
“Shall we send it to Alicia and tell her she needs to go back in the studio and add some tracks?”
“I thought, ‘have I done something heinous?’”: James Blake reminds Brian Eno that he once accused him of using ‘the arsehole chord’ and demands to know what it actually is
“There’s a way of resolving things in songs which always disappoints me,” Eno begins to explain…
Synth pioneer Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has died at the age of 80
Accomplished keyboard player and composer worked with both George Harrison and Ringo Starr
In celebration of Jan Hammer: so much more than great film and TV soundtracks
You might know Jan Hammer as the talented film and TV score writer, but he also redefined keyboard technique and performance
