Dick Hyman

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Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

He has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music producer, and, increasingly, as a composer.

In 2017, he was selected as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellow.

Early life

Hyman was born in New York City on March 8, 1927, to Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven, and grew up in suburban Mount Vernon, New York. Arthur, his elder brother, owned a jazz record collection and introduced him to Bix Beiderbecke and Art Tatum's music.

Anton Rovinsky, the concert pianist who opened The Celestial Railroad by Charles Ives in 1928, was trained classically by his mother's brother, Anton Rovinsky. "He was my most important teacher," Hyman said of Rovinsky. I got a sense of him and a certain amount of repertoire, especially Beethoven. Chopin was pursued by me on my own. I loved his ability to take a melody and embellish it in a variety of ways, which is what we do in jazz. Chopin would have made a superb jazz pianist. His waltzes are among my improvising to this day."

In June 1945, Hyman was enlisted in the United States Army and was sent to the US Navy's band department. "I was working with much more experienced musicians than I was used to," Hyman once said. "I'd been in a few kid bands in New York performing dances, but the Navy meant business, so I had to turn up, read music, and be with a group of better players than I'd expected to meet." He attended Columbia College after leaving the Navy. While there, Hyman won a piano competition for which he received 12 free lessons with swing-era pianist Teddy Wilson Hyman.

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Career

"All the Things You Are" and "You Shouldn't Be Cuter" were released by Relax Records in 1950. Under the pseudonym "Knuckles O'Toole" (including two original compositions), he recorded two honky-tonk piano albums, "Willie the Rock Knox" and "Slugger Ryan" (the latter two songs).

Hyman appeared with Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Guy Mitchell, Joni James, Marvin Rainwater, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ruth Brown, The Playmates, The Four Freshmen, Mitch Miller, and many others. Parker's first film appearance was with Charlie Parker. His extensive television studio work in New York in the 1950s and early 1960s included a stint as music director for Arthur Godfrey's television show from 1959 to 1961.

Henry Allen's films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Antonio Rose, and pianist Daniele Steele, singer, arranger, conductor, and pianist, Danny Rose, Broadway's Best Friends, Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone says I Love You, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Melinda and Melinda, and pianist. The French Quarter, Moonstruck, Scott Joplin, The Lemon Sisters, and Alan and Naomi are among his film scores. His music has appeared in Mask, Billy Bathgate, Two Weeks Notice, and other films. He was the music director of The Movie Music of Woody Allen, which premiered at the Hollywood Bowl.

Hyman composed and performed the score for Piano Man by the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet Company and Twyla Tharp's Rush for the American Ballet Theatre. He was the pianist/arranger in Tharp's Eight Jelly Rolls, Baker's Dozen, and The Bix Pieces, and he was also responsible for Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess, a choreographed production of the Dance Theater of Dallas. His Adventures of Tom Sawyer, commissioned by the John G. Shedd Institute for the Performing Arts and directed by Toni Pimble of the Eugene Ballet, premiered in Eugene, Oregon, in 2007.

On Enoch Light's Command Records, Hyman released several pop albums in the 1960s. On the albums Electrodynamics, he used the Lowrey organ at first (US No. 1). Fabulous (no. 117) (U.S. No. 107). 132) Keyboard Kaleidoscope and The Man from O.R.G.A.N. Dick Hyman's Musical Eclectics later released many albums on the Moog synthesizer, which included original compositions and cover versions, including Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (Can No. 35) and The Age of Electronics (U.S. No. 2) 110 (110).

The track "The Minotaur" by The Electric Eclectics (1969), charted in the US top 40 (US R&B Singles No. 68). 27; Hot 100 No. 1 is no. 1; Hot 100 No. No. 38) (No. 20 Canada), becoming the first Moog single hit (although, it was announced on 45 as the B-side to the shorter "Topless Dancers of Corfu"). Beck sampled certain elements from his album "The Moog and Me" (mostly the whistle that acts as the song's lead-in) on the same album.

Hyman has appeared at jazz festivals and concert halls. Hyman and his wife immigrated to Venice, Florida, in 1995.

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