| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year |
| Show Start | Talk | |||
| Chucho Valdez | Moane | Lucumi | Messidor | |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Prelude Opus 23 #10 | Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff | RCA Victor | |
| Reginald Robinson | Pekin Rag | Euphonic Sounds | Delmark | |
| Red Richards | Some Other Spring | Lullabye In Rhythm | Sackville | |
| Otis Spann | Walkin' The Blues | Complete Candid Recordings | Mosaic | |
| Hung-Kuan Chen | Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Minor | Chopin:24 Preludes. Op. 28 | MusicMasters | |
| Thelonious Monk | All Alone | Thelonious Himself | Riverside | |
| Marcus Roberts | Jungle Blues | Alone With Three Giants | BMG Novus | |
| Emanuel Ax | Intermezzo #1 | Brahms:Piano Sonata No.3, Op. 5-Intermezzi Op. 117 | Sony | |
| Lennie Tristano | Requiem | The New Tristano | Atlantic | |
| Art Tatum | Willow Weep For Me | The Complete Capitol Recordings | Capitol | |
| Oscar Peterson | Tin Tin Deo | Exclusively For My Friends | Verve | |
| Talk | ||||
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