Dick Hyman
USA
Born: 08 March 1927
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Easy Listening, Stage & Screen, Vocal
Styles: Swing, Big Band/Swing, Stride, Early Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Soundtracks, Film Music, Lounge, Exotica/Lounge, Spy Music, Standards, Hard Bop, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards
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A very versatile virtuoso, Dick Hyman once recorded an album on which he played "A Child Is Born" in the styles of 11 different pianists, from Scott Joplin to Cecil Taylor. Hyman can clearly play anything he wants to, and since the '70s, he has mostly concentrated on pre-bop swing and stride styles. Hyman worked with Red Norvo (1949-1950) and Benny Goodman (1950), and then spent much of the 1950s and '60s as a studio musician. He appears on the one known sound film of Charlie Parker (Hot House from 1952); recorded honky tonk under pseudonyms; p...
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