1.   Again, we were lucky enough to see the late, great Michel Petrucciani play jazz piano at the Festival Hall.

2.   Charles adopted a similar approach to theirs, mixing suave, blues-tinged ballads and rhythmic novelty tunes over tasty jazz piano fills.

3.   From an early age, he knew he wanted to play jazz piano.

4.   Half a dozen laptop screens glowed in the dimly lighted room, and cell phones trilled over a Sunday-morning soundtrack of twinkly jazz piano.

5.   He has taken the accentual subtleties and the concern for tonal color of the European classical piano tradition and applied them to jazz solo piano.

6.   He played a solo concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday night, mostly of standards and tunes written by heroes of the jazz piano.

7.   Herbie Hancock, a pioneer of both funk-jazz and the merging of jazz with hip-hop, had returned to straight-ahead jazz piano in recent years.

8.   Hyman has studied every period of jazz piano.

9.   I go to catch the occasional jazz piano of Bruce Barth, who is developing a high and original style.

10.   If Dern is one passion in his life these days, jazz piano is another -- he occasionally jams with Peter Weller, who plays the horn.