Roger Williams - Collection 1954-62Very few instrumentalists can match the chart success of American pianist Roger Williams, who had well over thirty chart entries during his career, and came to fame with his 1955 debut hit "Autumn Leaves", which remains the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts, selling over two million copies in the process. A classically trained pianist, who also studied jazz piano at New York's renowned Juilliard School of Music, he was

For decades

Bucky Pizzarelli

as well as making his first recordings leading his own different line-ups - his two sets of recordings with Monk's Quartet and Quintet in 1948 and 1951 are especially notable

The next composer is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his Piano Sonata No

Heartbreak

This 68-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from their releases on the Okeh

as soloist

Owsley Stanley a/k/a Bear

arranger and conductor Henry Mancini is renowned for his involvement in music for the movies

including some of the early renditions of compositions which went on to become jazz and Great American Songbook standards like "Deep Henderson"

They have performed regularly throughout Europe

during a time when he was also recording and performing with bands led by the likes of Coleman Hawkins