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Dick Hyman
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Artist · United States

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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