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Dick Hyman
jazz pianist
Since 1927
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Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017.
As a pianist, Hyman has been praised for his versatility. DownBeat magazine characterized him as "a pianist of longstanding grace and bountiful talent, with an ability to adapt to nearly any historical style, from stride to bop to modernist sound-painting.". A masterful improviser, he is also a composer of concerti and chamber music, and the soundtrack composer/arranger for more than a dozen Woody Allen films. In addition, he launched the acclaimed Jazz in July series at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and served as its artistic director for 20 years.
His daughter Judy Hyman is a founding member of The Horse Flies, an American alternative rock/folk band based in Ithaca, New York.
His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.
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Richard “Dick” Hyman (né le 8 mars 1927 à New York) est un compositeur et pianiste de jazz américain. Il est connu dans le milieu du jazz pour sa grande polyvalence sur le piano, jouant aussi bien les classiques du ragtime que des arrangements de jazz moderne. Il a d'ailleurs sorti des livres et des vidéos d'apprentissage où il décortique le style de grands jazzmen tels que Art Tatum ou Erroll Garner. Il démontre notamment sa connaissance des divers styles pianistiques sur son album A Child Is Born où il interprète le célèbre standard de Thad Jones une douzaine de fois, imitant le style de célèbres pianistes de jazz et ajoutant ensuite sa propre version. En outre Hyman a mené une longue carrière de compositeur notamment pour le cinéma signant, par exemple, un grand nombre des bandes originales de films de Woody Allen. Dick Hyman est un des derniers musiciens vivants à avoir joué avec Charlie Parker. Lors d'une émission à la télévision américaine, il joue Hot House en compagnie de Bird, de Dizzy Gillespie, avec Sandy Block à la contrebasse et Charlie Smith à la batterie.
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Discography
Albums
- 1953 Kurt Weill - A Piano Portrait by Dick Hyman
- 1963 Moon Gas
- 1964 Keyboard Kaleidoscope
- 1965 The Man From O.R.G.A.N.
- 1969 Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman
- 1969 The Age of Electronicus
- 1971 Fantomfingers
- 1974 Transcriptions For Orchestra
- 1975 Charleston
- 1975 Dick Hyman Plays Keyboard Classics Of The Nostalgia Years
- 1975 Satchmo Remembered the Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall
- 1977 Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive
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- 1977 Sliding By
- 1977 Themes & Variations On "A Child Is Born"
- 1978 Oleo
- 1983 Kitten On The Keys: The Music of Zez Confrey
- 1984 America the Beautiful
- 1984 Eubie
- 1985 Fireworks: The New School Concert 1983
- 1987 Manhattan Jazz
- 1987 Runnin' Ragged: The Classic Hot Jazz Duets By Joe Venuti
- 1988 Scott Joplin Piano Works: 1899–1904
- 1989 Plays The Music Of Harry Reser
- 1989 The Kingdom of Swing & The Republic of Oop Bop Sh'bam
- 1989 Music From My Fair Lady: With an Extra Bit of Luck
- 1990 Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
- 1990 Younger Than Swingtime: Music from South Pacific
- 1990 Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
- 1993 The Gershwin Songbook: Jazz Variations
- 1994 Concord Duo Series, Volume Six: Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton
- 1994 Summit Reunion 1992
- 1994 From the Age of Swing
- 1995 Face the Music
- 1995 Elegies, Mostly
- 1996 Cole Porter: All Through the Night
- 1996 Play Nice Tunes
- 1996 Swing Is Here
- 1998 A Perfect Match
- 1998 Dick and Derek at the Movies
- 1999 Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington
- 2001 Just You Just Me
- 2002 Barrel Of Keys (Piano Duos & Solos)
- 2002 Watch What Happens
- 2002 Forgotten Dreams: Archives of Novelty Piano (1920’s–1930’s)
- 2003 What Is There To Say ?
- 2004 If Bix Played Gershwin
- 2005 Now & Again
- 2005 Stridemonster! The Duo Pianos Of Dick Hyman / Dick Wellstood
- 2006 Blues in the Night
- 2006 Dick Hyman Plays Variation on Richard Rodgers
- 2006 Dick Hyman Plays Variations On Richard Rodgers
- 2006 Brasilian Impressions
- 2007 Delta Bound
- 2007 Teddy Wilson in 4 Hands
- 2007 Playful Virtuosity
- 2008 Dave Bennett Celebrates 100 Years of Benny
- 2009 Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano
- 2013 Lock My Heart
- 2021 Genius At Play
- 2023 The Complete Works for Piano
- I'll Never Be the Same
- In Recital
- Leonard Feather & Dick Hyman with His East Coast All Stars
- There Will Never Be Another You