Ken Dryden Posted March 5, 2022 Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 I've got a fair amount of Dick Hyman's discography, so I saluted his 95th birthday with a sampling of his recordings. It streams live on Sunday, March 6, on WUTC.org at 3 PM ET, though most will find it easier to stream or download at this link: https://archive.org/details/timeless-jazz-3-5-2022-dick-hyman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 5, 2022 Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 (edited) Did you play anything from his masterpiece Moon Gas (MGM) or any of his Command/Project 3 Moog tracks? Edited March 5, 2022 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 I've got them but opted for acoustic piano, except for a couple of theatre organ pieces. I've got a lot of LPs that haven't been reissued on CD that I would have to digitize in order to share them on air. Maybe I'll acquire a second turntable for that purpose, because making CDRs for broadcast from LPs is a bit time-consuming and wasteful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 5, 2022 Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 39 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said: I've got them but opted for acoustic piano, except for a couple of theatre organ pieces. That has certainly been his focus in recent decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 Dick Hyman also no longer plays organ, he told me that in a phone interview a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 5, 2022 Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 (edited) In the mid-1990s, Ms. TTK interviewed Dick Hyman for NPR. It was a pretty balanced piece, in terms of jazz, Woody Allen, and session work. At one point, she brought up the Moog albums and shared that these LPs had found a new audience. He kind of laughed it off in the interview, and they moved onto the next topic. By the late 1990s, the space-age-bachelor-pad thing was in full swing, and Hyman fully embraced those albums at that time. Ms. TTK was a few years ahead of the curve. We digitized the interview, and I must have it here someplace. Edited March 5, 2022 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2022 I think I did my first phone interview around 1990, but I am unsure if I dubbed it to cassette before editing portions into my show. I finally realized it was better to save an unedited master for myself. I told Dick Hyman about some CD reissues of things he had recorded under a pseudonym and he bought copies for his library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 To give you an idea of my Dick Hyman collection: CDs. including various artists, compilations & billed as co-leader Dave Brubeck/Roland Hanna/Dick Hyman Jazz Sonatas Angel Dick Hyman/Derek Smith/Ralph Sutton: The Piano Giants at Bob Haggart's 80th Birthday Party Arbors Bix Beiderbecke Centennial All Stars Celebrating Bix! Arbors Dick Hyman: Genius at Play/Lou Levy: Solo Audiophile Dick Hyman/Ralph Sutton/Jay McShann/Mike Lipskin/Harry Sweets Edison Stride Piano Summit Milestone Dick Hyman/Urbie Green/Milt Hinton/Butch Miles/Derek Smith/Buddy Tate/ Warren Vache/Joe Wilder: The Kingdom of Swing & The Republic of Oop Bop Sh'Bam Jazz In July Live at the 92nd St. Y MusicMasters Dick Hyman/Roger Kellaway/Jay McShann/Marian McPartland/Derek Smith/ Ralph Sutton/Dick Wellstood: Piano Players & Significant Others MusicMasters Evan Christopher/Dick Hyman Delta Bound Arbors Meral Guneyman & Dick Hyman Playful Virtuosity Rykodisc Dick Hyman & Ruby Braff Play Nice Tunes Arbors Dick Hyman Trio Cheek To Cheek Arbors Dick Hyman & John Sheridan Forgotten Dreams Arbors Ruby Braff & Dick Hyman America, the Beautiful Arbors Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher If Bix Played Gershwin Arbors Dick Hyman & Randy Sandke Now & Again Arbors Dick Hyman Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano Arbors Dick Hyman House of Pianos Arbors Dick Hyman Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festivals 1983-1988 Arbors Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski Counterpoint: Lerner & Loewe Arbors Maxine Sullivan/Dick Hyman Sullivan Shakespeare Hyman Audiophile Dick Hyman & The Group The Soulful “Mirrors” Sound!/Sweet Sweet Soul Blue Moon Hyman/Braff Music From My Fair Lady Concord Hyman/Braff Music From South Pacific Concord Hyman, Dick Music of 1937 (Maybeck) Concord Dick Hyman & Ralph Sutton At Maybeck Concord Hyman/Kurtis Runnin' Ragged Fanfare Dick Hyman A Waltz Dressed in Blue Four Star Dick Hyman & Niels Pedersen Elegies, Mostly Gemini Ruby Braff/Dick Hyman Fireworks-The New School Concert 183 Inner City Dick Hyman/Derek Smith They Got Rhythm! xJass Dick Hyman & Louis Mazetier Barrel of Keys* Jazz Connaisseur Dick Hyman There Will Never Be Another You* Jazz Connaisseur Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays Variations on Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hart) Jazz Heritage Society Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays Variations on Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hammerstein) Jazz Heritage Society Dick Hyman & Roger Kellaway Live At Michael's Pub JazzMania Dick Hyman An Evening at the Cookery June 17, 1973 JRB Dick Hyman/Judy Hyman Late Late Summer Left Ear Hyman, Dick Live From Toronto's Cafe Des Copains Music & Arts Hyman, Dick Cincinnati Fats Musical Heritage Hyman, Dick At Chung's Chinese Restaurant Musical Heritage Hyman, Dick Face the Music Musical Heritage Hyman/Braff Manhattan Jazz MusicMasters Hyman, Dick Plays Harold Arlen MusicMasters Hyman, Dick All Through The Night MusicMasters Hyman, Dick The Gershwin Songbook: Jazz Variations MusicMasters Dick Hyman Gulf Coast Blues Omega Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo Moon Gas/Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman Omni Dick Hyman September Song: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Kurt Weill Proscenium Dick Hyman Noel Coward-Mad About the Boy: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Noel Coward Proseenium Dick Hyman Autumn in New York-Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Vernon Duke Proseenium Dick Hyman Scott Joplin: Piano Works 1889-1904 RCA Victor Hyman, Dick Plays Fats Waller Reference Hyman, Dick Plays Duke Ellington Reference Hyman, Dick From The Age Of Swing Reference Dick Hyman Swing Is Here Reference Dick Hyman In Recital Reference Dick Hyman Thinking About Bix Reference Dick Hyman/Ralph Sutton Just You Just Me Sackville Dick Hyman & Dick Wellstood Stridemonster! Sackville Dick Hyman In Concert at the Old Mill Inn Sackville Dick Hyman Knuckles O'Toole Greatest Ragtime Hits & Bridey O'Toole & the Boys in the Back Room Siggnal Sounds Dick Hyman Willie the Rock Knox/Slugger Ryan Siggnal Sounds Dick Hyman Music From the Motion Picture Bullets Over Broadway Sony Classical Dick Hyman Sweet And Lowdown (Music From...) Sony Classical Dick Hyman Jelly & James Sony Masterworks Dick Hyman Moog The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman Varese Sarabande Dick Hyman Trio You're My Everything: The Music of Harry Warren Venus Dick Hyman & Ray Kennedy What is There to Say?* Victoria Dick Hyman & Chris Hopkins Teddy Wilson in Four Hands Victoria Dick Hyman & Shelly Berg Meeting of Minds Victoria Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski E Pluribus Duo Victoria Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski …Live at the Kitano Victoria Roger Kellaway/Dick Hyman Two Pianos: Roger Kellaway & Dick Hyman at the Jazz Bakery Jazz Bakery Heather Masse & Dick Hyman Lock My Heart Red House Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with Dick Hyman The Jazz Alliance Bucky Pizzarelli/Dick Hyman/Jay Leonhart Lost Songs of 1936 Victoria Molly Ryan w/ Dick Hyman Let's Fly Away Loup-garous Bob Wilber & Dick Hyman A Perfect Match Arbors Bob Wilber/Dick Hyman Kenny Davern Tribute/Bob Wilber's 80th Birthday Salute Sidney Bechet Society LPs: LPs: Clark Terry/Harry Edison/Kai Winding/Urbie Green/Zoot Sims/Budd Johnson/Flip Phillips/Dick Hyman/James Moody: Colorado Jazz Party BASF Hyman/Hanna/McPartland/Jones The Jazz Piano Quartet: Let It Happen RCA Dick Hyman & the New York Jazz Repertory Company Satchmo Remembered The Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall Atlantic Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays the Keyboard Classics of the Nostalgia Years Cadence Dick Hyman/Ruby Braff Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive x Chiaroscuro Dick Hyman Themes & Variations on A Child is Born x Chiaroscuro Dick Hyman Charleston: The Songs That Made The Twenties Roar x Columbia Dick Hyman Provocative Piano x Command Dick Hyman & His Orchestra Provocative Piano Vol. 2 x Command Dick Hyman And His Trio x Command Dick Hyman Fabulous x Command Dick Hyman Brasilian Impresssions x Command Dick Hyman A Zillion Strings x Everest Dick Hyman/Ruby Braff Fireworks-The New School Concert 1983* Inner City Dick Hyman/Derek Smith At Van Wezel Hall Jazz Club Sarasota Dick Hyman Scott Joplin (Soundtrack) x MCA Dick Hyman Trio The Dick Hyman Trio Swings x MGM Dick Hyman The Unforgettable Sound of the Dick Hyman Trio x MGM Dick Hyman Beside a Shady Nook x MGM Dick Hyman Red Sails in the Sunset x MGM \ Dick Hyman-Leonard Feather Orchestra Hi-Fi Suite x MGM Dick Hyman 60 Great All Time Songs Vol. 5 x MGM Dick Hyman Trio Plays Lerner & Lowe's Score From Gigi x MGM Dick Hyman Oh Captain! x MGM Dick Hyman Swings Music From Whoop-Up x MGM Dick Hyman Trio After Six x MGM 3827 Dick Hyman Genius At Play x Monmouth-Evergreen Dick Hyman/Max Morath/Danny Barker/Clifford Jackson Don't Give The Name A Bad Place x New World Dick Hyman Piano Solo x Project 3 Dick Hyman Plays Ragtime, Stomps & Stride x Project 3 Dick Hyman Scott Joplin-The Works For Piano x RCA Dick Hyman Kitten on the Keys: The Music of Zez Confrey x RCA Dick Hyman Scott Joplin-16 Classic Rags x RCA Dick Hyman Ensemble Music of Jelly Roll Morton x Smithsonian Dick Hyman Gulf Coast Blues Stomp Off Dick Hyman & the Perfect Jazz (Repertory) Quintet Say It With Music World Jazz Dick Wellstood & Dick Hyman I Wish I Were Twins x Swingtime That doesn't count his sideman appearances not billed on the covers... 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JSngry Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 11 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said: Did you play anything from his masterpiece Moon Gas (MGM) or any of his Command/Project 3 Moog tracks? Dude, that is SICK!!!!! Who's the drummer? I had head about those records but was thinking, ok, Dick Hyman, moogs,whatever, but THAT shit is poppin!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dprfish Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 Drummer is listed here as being Bill Lavorgna: http://stereocandies.blogspot.com/2018/10/dick-hyman-age-of-electronicus-1969.html https://www.discogs.com/artist/346176-Bill-Lavorgna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 1 hour ago, JSngry said: Dude, that is SICK!!!!! I could listen to that on a loop for HOURS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) In his first appearance on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Hyman described how he decided to push two buttons together on the keyboard, creating a bossa nova waltz on one of his Moog albums. Maybe I need to upload that broadcast. Edited March 6, 2022 by Ken Dryden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 13 hours ago, dprfish said: Drummer is listed here as being Bill Lavorgna: http://stereocandies.blogspot.com/2018/10/dick-hyman-age-of-electronicus-1969.html https://www.discogs.com/artist/346176-Bill-Lavorgna Thanks! The implications of that resume imply a world of experience. Percussionists are often way ahead of everybody else's curved, at least in my experience! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonewall15 Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 The Dick Hyman at Maybeck is absolutely magnificent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 The Dick Hyman at Maybeck is one of my favorite releases in his vast discography and easily one of the best of the Maybeck series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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