Dick Hyman

The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – Merry Christmas (1971) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 21, 2023 · Comments off

Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early ’50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in a long career involving film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under his own name. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller, which he often features in his frequent recitals. Other solo recordings include the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Duke Ellington. Some of his past recordings with combos are From The Age Of Swing, Swing Is Here, Cheek To Cheek, and If Bix Played Gershwin, plus numerous duet albums with cornetist Ruby Braff, and fellow pianists including Ralph Sutton, Shelly Berg, Derek Smith. In a very different vein, Mr. Hyman was one of the first to record on the Moog synthesizer, and his Minotaur landed on the Billboard charts.

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The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – My Favorite Things and Other Hits (1969) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 19, 2023 · Comments off

Richard Hyman 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. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.

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

Studio Masters By admin · September 21, 2023 · Comments off

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.

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Dick Hyman – Thinking About Bix (2008/2009) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · December 21, 2022 · Comments off

Dick Hyman, one of the most accomplished and versatile musicians of our time, is especially known as an authority on early jazz. After a lifetime of playing and studying the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Hyman recorded this solo program of music associated with Bix, including all five original pieces Bix wrote for piano. Hyman arranged other numbers Bix performed with various groups and plays and improvises upon these in his distinctive, brilliant style. Thinking About Bix was recorded at Skywalker Sound in California using custom-made microphones, electronics and high-resolution digital converters.

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Dick Hyman – From The Age Of Swing (1994/2013) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · December 21, 2022 · Comments off

A longtime student of jazz piano history, Dick Hyman has previously recorded the works of Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and other early jazz pianists. Some of the greatest jazzmen from the Swing Era have been brought together for this exceptional album including Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Milt Hinton, Butch Miles, Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Temperly, Frank Wess and Joe Wilder.

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Dick Hyman – Thinking about Bix (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 19, 2022 · Comments off

Dick Hyman, one of the most accomplished and versatile musicians alive, is especially known as an authority on early jazz. After a lifetime of playing and studying the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Hyman announced he’d like to record for RR a solo program of music associated with Bix, including all five original pieces Bix wrote for piano. (Most likely, these are a recorded first.) Hyman arranged other numbers Bix performed with various groups, and plays and improvises upon these in his distinctive, brilliant style. The title track is an infectious Hyman original reminiscent of the period. An attractive bonus is a piano four-hands performance with Hyman’s friend and stride authority, Mike Lipskin.

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Dick Hyman – From The Age of Swing (1994) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 19, 2022 · Comments off

With some of the greatest jazzmen who lived and played through The Age of Swing: Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Milt Hinton, Butch Miles, Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Temperly, Frank Wess and Joe Wilder. RR’s all-time fastest seller!

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A Zillion Strings & Dick Hyman – A Zillion Strings and Dick Hyman at the Piano (1960/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 10, 2022 · Comments off

A Zillion Strings & Dick Hyman – A Zillion Strings and Dick Hyman at the Piano (1960/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:02 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Lounge
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz, Instrumental, Easy Listening, Lounge

Dick Hyman was a jack-of-all trades keyboardist throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, recording both jazz and easy listening albums on various keyboards before eventually focusing primarily on the former. This 1960 Everest LP clearly falls in the easy listening camp, with Hyman’s lush piano backed by a large string orchestra, conducted by Jules Schacter. Even though there are two jazz compositions included (“Caravan” and “Sugar Blues”) on the album, as well as several standards favored by jazz musicians (“Willow Weep for Me” and “I’ll Never Be the Same”) Hyman never takes the opportunity to show his true capabilities at the piano, as that might have overwhelmed the intended audience for this recording. His one original for this date, the Hawaiian-like “Kaipuala” was a jaunty vehicle written for a television sequence featuring Arthur Godfrey, for whom he served as music director for a time. While this is pretty music, most fans of Dick Hyman will prefer his jazz-oriented dates to this less adventurous record.

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