1.   He was a local jazz pianist.

2.   An unaccompanied solo concert is the ultimate test of a jazz pianist.

3.   Andre Previn, the conductor, once referred to Sutton as one of the few jazz pianists who had complete mastery of his instrument.

4.   As a jazz pianist, pop singer and actor, Connick has managed to straddle the mainstream without quite giving himself up to it.

5.   A colleague asked Newall, a sometime jazz pianist, if he could set the multiplication tables to music because his son was having trouble with them in school.

6.   A classmate of his was Bob James, the jazz pianist and composer, and the two started writing musicals together.

7.   A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business, he started his career as a jazz pianist before turning to acting.

8.   All this would be of purely academic interest were it not for the fact that Mel Powell was no ordinary jazz pianist.

9.   Cole was a serious jazz pianist who found he could make far more money as a singer, and did so with very few qualms.

10.   Dick Hyman, the jazz pianist and historian, has spent his career educating audiences about the great figures of prewar jazz.