The best synthesizer & keyboards soloists of all time - videos!

Rick Wakeman - Catherine Parr (1988)

Rick Wakeman Solo Medley ~ Yes ~ Live at Montreux [2003]

 

Deep Purple – Jon Lord Keyboard Solo (Perfect Strangers - Live 1984)

♫ Jon Lord - amazing solo♫ (Hammond Lord)

 

Mike Garson played maybe my favorite piano parts ever on Aladin Sane and taught me to play what I feel.

 

THE BEST Live in JAPAN #4 Keith Emerson = Piano Solo 〜 AMERICA =

Keith Emerson assaulting his keyboards for 10 minutes

 

Frankenstein . Edgar Winters Group (1973)

BOSTON - Smokin (2008)

 

Threw in a geetar for good measure, don't get any better than this, great live performance too.

 

Maybe this tops it though

 

Hi all, I am new here and I take this opportunity to share these solos

Jon Lord

Joe Zawinul, solo towards the end

Kenny Kirkland, piano solo

Lyle Mays, Synth Harmonica solo

Ray Manzarek

 

So, so many...

Not necessarily the "best" but certainly one of the most memorable of the period. (Doesn't appear to be any live footage around )

George Duke's playing in the last section is utterly inspirational.

Good solos didn't end in the '70s of course. Now one of my all time favourites even though it's relatively young..

Virtually anything this guy plays could be put here but I particularly like the solo in this (as it's not pretending to be guitar). There aren't many keyboard players mad enough to take a huge modular rig like that out live, apart from Jordan Rudess of course.

 

Welcome Gipxi, your good taste tells me you'll fit in well here.

 

Last edited: May 23, 2025

Hiromi Uehara

 

I was moments away from posting Duke's incredible bits from Inca Roads which might be my all time favorite Zappa track (if there really is one, after all....), so instead from the same show I'll include this one as he walks away from the keyboard during his schtick, sips a drink from a can, plays a tambourine, dances with Napoleon Murphy Brock and then finally goes back to play some more.

 

Jordan Rudess - The Dark Eternal Night

Jan Hammer (w/Jeff Beck) - Blue Wind

 

Styx - One With Everything

Geoff Downes/Asia - Heat of the Moment

 

Thank you very much!

 

Does this unexpected incredible intro count?

and last one

 

Max Middleton, one of my preferred Fender Rhodes player.
1. "Definitely Maybe" (Jeff Beck Group)

2. "Rubber Hunger" (Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release)

3. "Diamond Dust" (Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow)

 

Stevie's fingers are loose and have a seeming life of their own.

 

Keyboard Solo Anthology : Jean Michel Jarre (chorus medley)

Camel - Rhayader / Rhayader Goes to Town (Live)