Billy Taylor and Dick Hyman Play Bebop

http://www.billytaylorjazz.net presents a unique piano duo, featuring Billy Taylor and Dick Hyman

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• Taylor
• Dick
• Hyman
• Jazz
• Piano
• Bebop

[squeezemahlemon]

music spans genders, ages, eras, races and most other great schisms in our world today.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@squeezemahlemon Amen.

[bhcphoto]

Hyman's harmonic creativity is really great

[JazzVideoGuy]

@bhcphoto I'm hip!

[PaintCanJustice]

@TempoPoet uh ur name is tempopoet are u some sort of cafe bitch?

[flippercanorious]

Way above my head.........what is it all about...........

where is it going?

I find it somewhat monotonous

[TempoPoet]

excuse my language-but pianos are these guys bitches.

[Kaalec]

@josiah566 Oh, and by dweebs, I was not referring to the musicians as much as the self-proclaimed arbiters of the form. Most of whom have never picked up an instrument in their lives. These are the people who crap all over jaz musicians who enjoy even a modicum of commercial success. Why is it wrong for jazz musicians to make money? Armstrong did, Parker, Davis, Peterson all did. Jazz "critics" should get over themselves at their earliest convenience.

[Kaalec]

@josiah566 Love Fats Waller, Art Tatum, the Duke and the Count. And of course people are free to like whatever they want. My complaint is that the bebop revolution started a trend that virtually the entire jazz world followed, so that today there is little in contemporary jazz that is melodic or even particularly rhythmic. Jazz has, and continues to, narrow its focus while most other forms of music have broadened theirs.

[josiah566]

@Kaalec I enjoy the accessible forms of Jazz perhaps more than the next man. The center of my music library is my extensive collection of Fats Waller tracks, case in point. However, I am not so quick to say that Dick Hyman or Billy Taylor in this recording are being "Jazz Dweebs". Their playing is of a very sophisticated form, and it is enjoyable to the last degree. Furthermore, music is music. It shouldn't matter if it is accessible or not, so long as it inspires even a single person.