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Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. [1] As a pianist, Hyman has been praised for his versatility.
In 2015, the legendary pianist and NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman sat down with pianist and leading Ragtime scholar Terry Waldo for a discussion of his extraordi...
Multi-keyboardist Dick Hyman, born March 8, 1927, will turn 97 years old this month. With a prolific career behind him he’s no longer performing publicly, but it’s important now to highlight his broadly diverse accomplishments in jazz music in all idioms.
DICK HYMAN. Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early '50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in a long career involving film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under ...
Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early '50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer.
From the 1960s onward, Dick led a dual life as a jazz performer and a studio musician, acting as music director for Arthur Godfrey and others, recording easy listening albums, shifting often from piano to organ. Dick also is known as a one-man piano museum.
Born March 8, 1927, in New York City, the classically trained Hyman was drawn to jazz at an early age. Today, he's a living, breathing, swinging encyclopedia of jazz piano history, from ragtime...
