DICK HYMAN TRIO Marv.wmv

Recorded in 1958. DICK HYMAN-piano, EDDIE SAFRANSKI-bass and DON LAMOND-drums. Dick Hyman (born March 8, 1927, New York City) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in well over 100 albums recorded under his own name and many more in support of other artists.Dick Hyman was trained classically by his mother's brother, the concert pianist Anton Rovinsky, a fixture of the pre-war art scene in New York and noted for having premiered some of Charles Ives's works such as the Celestial Railroad in 1928. "He was my most important teacher. I learned touch from him and a certain amount of repertoire, especially Beethoven. On my own I pursued Chopin. I loved his ability to take a melody an embellish it in different arbitrary ways, which is exactly what we do in jazz... His waltzes are in my improvising to this day", Hyman told an interviewer once. He was introduced to the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, and others by his older brother, Arthur, and by high school he was playing in dance bands throughout Westchester County. Hyman completed his freshman year at Columbia University and in June 1945 he enlisted in the Army, transferred to the Navy, and began playing in the band department. When he returned to Columbia he won an on-air piano competition, earning him 12 free lessons with Teddy Wilson, the great swing-era pianist who a decade earlier had broken the race barrier as a member of the Benny Goodman Trio. A few years later Hyman himself became Goodman's pianist.

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• DICK
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• TRIO
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• jazz
• piano
• DON LAMOND
• EDDIE SAFRANSKI
• New York