George Winston, one of the bestselling instrumental pianists in the world during his heyday in the 1980s and ‘90s, died Sunday at age 73.
The announcement came through his social media and website and said he “painlessly left this world while asleep” following a decade-long battle with cancer.
Winston’s interests went beyond piano, as he also released acoustic guitar and harmonica recordings. In fact, he started up his own label, Dancing Cat Records, largely because of his interest in releasing albums by artists playing the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. But he will forever be predominantly identified as one of the most famous pianists of the late 20th century.
Lesser known than his predominant style was Winston’s interest in New Orleans-style R&B piano, and he even claimed that 90% of the songs he played were in that style -- “mainly played at the solo piano dances I do” -- although this was rarely a staple of his typically more sedate recordings.
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