Why should guitar players get things their own way on here. What about the keyboard & piano players . Who is your favourite?
Mine, obviously Leon, Gartth Hudson is a genius & I love Booker T.Jones. But the main man has to be this cat. My mum got me into him despite my Grandad smashing all her 45’s she had of him.
love this , looks like he escaped from the local jail and the last couple of mins are pure raw rock & roll
folks, The Killer …A punk when Sid vicious was still in his dad’s ball bag
Benmont Tench III
Greatest? Should be favourite…someone I could watch and listen to for hours…
5.35 on…enough to blow anyone’s mind. 
The other bloke in Soft Cell.
For me it has to be Keith Emerson. He wasnt called the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboards for nothing. But he was much more than a showman.He was a very accomplished musician and composer. You dont get many rock keyboardist writing piano concertos. He was also a pioneer, pushing the then new instrument, the Moog synthesizer to the fore. He took the giant machine out on the road (the early modular Moog looked like a giant telephone exchange) and despite it constantly going out of tune in the early days, it added a pallet of unearthly sounds that Emerson expertly harnessed to his own compositions and the classical covers that The Nice and ELP were famous for. I’ve seen Rick Wakeman and Jon Lord and both are awesome, but I havent seen anyone as gifted as Emerson.
Anna Fedorova aint to sloppy
Here is a clip that covers both our bases Lifers!
Liberace had a certain style about him 
Tom O’Dell is very good.
Russ Conway knew how to rock 
Mrs Mills was my favourite 
Maybe not the greatest, yet, but Luca Sestak is mustard. A young guy (only 21) but hs boogie woogie is exceptional. World class. If you like that sort of thing, then check out some youtube clips.
Sorry for fucking up the link above.
Anyway, Deacon Jones is worthy of mention. Class on the hammond organ!
Fuck it!
Sublime keyboard player with a distinctive sound. The core of so much of Marillions more adventurous works. Still uses his MiniMoog
Jools Holland is a very very good piano player. Very much respected by his peers. His secret is that he has a fabulous left hand, as good as it gets. For a piano player, the left hand is what separates a player who can bash out a tune, from the very few who are capable of taking it to a whole new level.
Have to agree with the shout for Keith Emerson, a child prodigy who was lucky enough to be a teenager in the sixties,( like me as it happens), who spewed the path that was probably mapped out for him, turned on, and chose rock n roll. I grew up in Canterbury, in 1967, with a couple of mates i went the the Dreamland Ballroom in Margate to see PP Arnold. She was billed as PP Arnold and The Nice, they were her backing band. They were given a 30 minute slot before PP came on, the lights dimmed and they went straight into “America”. Keith Emerson’s take on the Leonard Bernstein classic. I, and just about everybody who witnessed it had never seen anything like it before, people were standing with their mouths open. Emerson gave it the full works, throwing the Hammond around the stage, daggers in the keyboards, the full gamut. All these years later i can still remember it as if it were yesterday. Like all truly great artists no matter what sphere, it was innate, something they are born with, it can’t be taught. So sad that Keith Emerson committed suicide a few months ago, because he couldn’t face the fact that, because of nerve damage in his hands, he could no longer play to the standards his fans expected.
Ray Manserek needs a mention
Hilda Woodward - a great sound!