Frank Kimbrough

One of the more individualistic acoustic pianists of the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, Frank Kimbrough is an "inside/outside" improviser whose primary influences range from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett to Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, and Andrew Hill. Kimbrough can play with as much elegance as Evans or Jarrett, but that doesn't prevent him from taking it "outside" and acknowledging Taylor's innovations. His 1988 debut Lonely Woman (titled for the Ornette Coleman composition), was celebrated for the arrival of a major new piano talent, while 2000's Quickening marked his first channeling o...