Most piano players that play by ear or from chord charts, start off with basic chords on the piano.  To play jazz piano chords is not that difficult if you understand basic chord theory.  Let me show you an easy way to transform your basic chords to jazz chords on the piano.

Most people learn to play piano by starting to read notes: right hand, then left hand, then both together until they can play a few songs from a book. I would say that about 90% of people learn to play piano this way. This is normally when people become discouraged or they loose interest.

What do you look for when you buy a piano?  This is one of the most important questions you can ask if you want to purchase a piano or a keyboard to practice or to play on.  Let me start with assuring you that if you want to play serious piano, there is nothing like a real piano.  You do get wonderful keyboards and clavinovas.  Some of them have weighted keys, pedals and a lot of different sounds, and I don’t have anything against it.  But for the piano purist there is just nothing like the sound of a real piano.