Dick Hyman – Scott Joplin – The Complete Works For Piano (2023 Remastered Version) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dick Hyman – Scott Joplin – The Complete Works For Piano (2023 Remastered Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:45:34 minutes | 7,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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Between January and April 1975, classically trained, award-winning jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman – whose prodigious resume includes playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman, writing and arranging for Count Basie, and scoring most of Woody Allen’s films – went to RCA’s Studio A in New York City and made the definitive recording of ragtime legend Scott Joplin’s piano works. Now, at last, Sony Classical is releasing Hyman’s entire Joplin album on three CDs. This is truly Joplin’s complete piano works. It even includes the six short exercises that make up his 1908 School of Ragtime, with the printed prefatory notes read by 92-year-old Eubie Blake, a friend of Joplin’s and a superb ragtime player himself. Also featured here are Joplin’s lesser-known marches and waltzes. And there’s a bonus: The set includes Hyman’s own twelve delightful improvisations on themes by Joplin, which he intended to demonstrate the composer’s influence on the development of jazz harmony and melody.

When the LPs were first released, Gramophone’s jazz critic wrote that “the eminent musical quality of Hyman’s playing can be heard throughout the collection; he has the ability to characterize each piece perfectly and somehow get to the heart of every little harmonic subtlety and melodic finesse without in any way detracting from the conception as a whole. …He pays as much attention to issues of tempo, texture, phrasing, and dynamics as if he were playing the twenty-four Chopin Préludes. I particularly enjoyed two pieces, for example: Cascades, with its rippling lightness, and Scott Joplin’s New Rag, in which Hyman’s clear articulation and rhythmic exuberance are a joy. … Joplin deserves this very fine and well-recorded tribute.”

Tracklist:
1-1. Dick Hyman – Maple Leaf Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (02:29)
1-2. Dick Hyman – Original Rags (2023 Remastered Version) (03:49)
1-3. Dick Hyman – Swipesy (2023 Remastered Version) (03:23)
1-4. Dick Hyman – Peacherine Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:03)
1-5. Dick Hyman – The Easy Winners (2023 Remastered Version) (03:38)
1-6. Dick Hyman – Sunflower Slow Drag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:59)
1-7. Dick Hyman – The Entertainer (2023 Remastered Version) (04:29)
1-8. Dick Hyman – Elite Syncopations (2023 Remastered Version) (03:46)
1-9. Dick Hyman – The Strenuous Life (2023 Remastered Version) (03:43)
1-10. Dick Hyman – A Breeze From Alabama (2023 Remastered Version) (04:02)
1-11. Dick Hyman – Palm Leaf Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:52)
1-12. Dick Hyman – Something Doing (2023 Remastered Version) (03:24)
1-13. Dick Hyman – Weeping Willow (2023 Remastered Version) (04:33)
1-14. Dick Hyman – The Chrysanthemum (2023 Remastered Version) (03:48)
1-15. Dick Hyman – The Cascades (2023 Remastered Version) (02:49)
1-16. Dick Hyman – The Sycamore (2023 Remastered Version) (02:44)
1-17. Dick Hyman – The Favorite (2023 Remastered Version) (03:12)
1-18. Dick Hyman – Leola (2023 Remastered Version) (03:49)
1-19. Dick Hyman – Peacherine Rag (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (00:51)
1-20. Dick Hyman – The Entertainer (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:55)
1-21. Dick Hyman – Elite Syncopations (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:57)
1-22. Dick Hyman – A Breeze From Alabama (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (02:14)
1-23. Dick Hyman – Something Doing (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (03:22)
1-24. Dick Hyman – The Chrysanthemum (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:47)
2-25. Dick Hyman – The Ragtime Dance (2023 Remastered Version) (03:21)
2-26. Dick Hyman – Eugenia (2023 Remastered Version) (04:40)
2-27. Dick Hyman – Lily Queen (2023 Remastered Version) (04:35)
2-28. Dick Hyman – Gladiolus Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:48)
2-29. Dick Hyman – Nonpareil (2023 Remastered Version) (03:42)
2-30. Dick Hyman – Heliotrope Bouquet (2023 Remastered Version) (04:20)
2-31. Dick Hyman – Search-Light Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:47)
2-32. Dick Hyman – Rose Leaf Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (04:30)
2-33. Dick Hyman – Fig Leaf Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (04:07)
2-34. Dick Hyman – Pine Apple Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:53)
2-35. Dick Hyman – Solace (2023 Remastered Version) (04:21)
2-36. Dick Hyman – Sugar Cane (2023 Remastered Version) (03:04)
2-37. Dick Hyman – Stoptime Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:00)
2-38. Dick Hyman – Euphonic Sounds (2023 Remastered Version) (03:01)
2-39. Dick Hyman – Country Club (2023 Remastered Version) (03:43)
2-40. Dick Hyman – Wall Street Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (04:25)
2-41. Dick Hyman – Felicity Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:06)
2-42. Dick Hyman – Paragon Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:32)
2-43. Dick Hyman – Gladiolus Rag (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:14)
2-44. Dick Hyman – Heliotrope Bouquet (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:23)
2-45. Dick Hyman – Fig Leaf Rag (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:54)
2-46. Dick Hyman – Stoptime Rag (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:43)
3-47. Dick Hyman – Scott Joplin’s New Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:28)
3-48. Dick Hyman – Silver Swan Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (04:17)
3-49. Dick Hyman – Kismet Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (03:32)
3-50. Dick Hyman – Magnetic Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (05:06)
3-51. Dick Hyman – Reflection Rag (2023 Remastered Version) (04:19)
3-52. Dick Hyman – Antoinette (2023 Remastered Version) (02:48)
3-53. Dick Hyman – Cleopha (2023 Remastered Version) (03:14)
3-54. Dick Hyman – March Majestic (2023 Remastered Version) (02:22)
3-55. Dick Hyman – Combination March (2023 Remastered Version) (02:20)
3-56. Dick Hyman – Rosebud (2023 Remastered Version) (02:59)
3-57. Dick Hyman – Great Crush Collision (2023 Remastered Version) (03:26)
3-58. Dick Hyman – Great Crush Collision (Ragtime Version) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:46)
3-59. Dick Hyman – Introduction (2023 Remastered Version) (01:22)
3-60. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 1 (2023 Remastered Version) (01:20)
3-61. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 2 (2023 Remastered Version) (01:02)
3-62. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 3 (2023 Remastered Version) (00:41)
3-63. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 4 (2023 Remastered Version) (00:47)
3-64. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 5 (2023 Remastered Version) (01:06)
3-65. Dick Hyman – Exercise No. 6 (2023 Remastered Version) (01:28)
3-66. Dick Hyman – Bethena (2023 Remastered Version) (04:50)
3-67. Dick Hyman – Binks’ Waltz (2023 Remastered Version) (04:05)
3-68. Dick Hyman – Pleasant Moments (2023 Remastered Version) (03:15)
3-69. Dick Hyman – Augustan Club Waltz (2023 Remastered Version) (04:23)
3-70. Dick Hyman – Harmony Club Waltz (2023 Remastered Version) (05:00)
3-71. Dick Hyman – Scott Joplin’s New Rag (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (01:59)
3-72. Dick Hyman – Pleasant Moments (Improvisations by Dick Hyman) (2023 Remastered Version) (02:19)

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