I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

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In 2006 he collaborated with composer/trumpeter Bal. " Manzarek liked the songs and co-founded the Doors with Morrison at that moment.

known as Ray Manzarek (born February 12 1939) is an American musician singer producer film director writer and co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973 Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001. Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr.