I’m only the piano player.” In that moment, John had the title for the sixth album he had been working on. Written and recorded between June 5 and 19, 1972, Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Just the ...

However, nearly half a century ago, an exhausted pianist playing a broken piano after only a few hours’ notice gave the world the highest-selling piano album ever and one of the highest-selling solo ...

The journey by car was long and made even worse by back pain. Then, the piano on stage was unplayable. On January 24, 1975, jazz pianist Keith Jarrett was close to cancelling his performance at the ...

But finally, his sixth studio album, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, gave him a No.1 album in his own country. Indeed, leaving aside his 1974 greatest hits collection, Don’t Shoot ...

The only song that I argued had to be in ... Bava: There's so much on this new album, it's so beautiful, and the piano solo version, so stunning. Was there a song that has a story attached to ...

His piano—the only instrument on the album, aside from an odd synth solo—is dampened by the practice mute pedal, and Phillips’ singing is courteously hushed. A laptop mic overhears it all ...

“When the label asked if I might be interested in recording an album of Carpenters songs on solo piano, I could only think of my Mom and Dad, and what an enormous compliment this was to their ...

Three years ago, Slenczynska announced she had re-signed to the record label Decca Classics, for her first album with the company since the 1960s. Slenczynska’s new solo piano album, My Life in Music, ...