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| Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume Three - Music of 1937 [AKA Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 3] |
| Dick Hyman |
| első megjelenés éve: 1990 |
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| (1990)
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| 3.726 Ft
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| 1. | Spoken Introduction :16
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| 2. | Where or When
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| 3. | A Foggy Day (In London Town)
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| 4. | Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
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| 5. | Someday My Prince Will Come
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| 6. | The Folks Who Live on the Hill
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| 7. | Bei Mir Bist du Schön
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| 8. | Loch Lomond
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| 9. | Thanks for the Memory
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| 10. | In the Still of the Night
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| 11. | My Funny Valentine
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| 12. | Caravan
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Jazz
Dick Hyman - Piano
Dick Hyman's talents have long been known in the profession and by the jazz underground, but until the 1980s he seldom ventured out of the greater New York area as a solo performer. By the time he was lured into the Berkeley, California hills where the Maybeck Recital Hall is located, he had become immensely popular as a result of his appearances in San Francisco's "Jazz in the City" series as well as the Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee.
As Hyman played through his two long sets of songs from 1937, none in the audience were more than 20 feet away from his keyboard; seated on the piano bench he chatted and introduced each selection in a relaxed, conversational manner. It was, as you hear on this brilliantly recorded disc (which exudes the hall's warmth) a night to remember.
1937 was a significant year in American popular music -- "Your Hit Parade," just a couple of years old, became a top network radio show; the record industry was reviving, thanks in part to the juke box boom and inexpensive radio/phonographs for the home, and to the remarkable success of Benny Goodman's "swing music." Fine songs from the Broadway stage, from Hollywood soundtracks and from tunesmiths in Tin Pan Alley and elsewhere were heard by millions of listeners.
The American popular song never had it so good.
* Bud Spangler - , Engineer, Remote Recording Coordinator
* Carl Jefferson - Producer
* Ellen Findlay Herdegen - Photography
* George Horn - Mastering
* Kent Judkins - Art Direction
* Martin Downing - Assistant Engineer
* Nick Phillips - Assistant Producer
* Philip Elwood - Liner Notes
* Ron Davis - Assembly, Engineer
Dick Hyman is such a versatile pianist that his own style has often been overshadowed by his interpretations of other pianists' work. Music of 1937, which features 11 diverse songs premiered in that year, finds Hyman at times hinting at Oscar Peterson (especially on "Where or When"), the stride piano masters, classical music, and even the basslines of Dave McKenna, but mostly he plays in his own virtuosic yet very melodic and accessible style. "Loch Lomond" pays tribute to Benny Goodman's rendition, "Thanks for the Memory" is based a bit on Bob Hope's original recording, and Art Tatum would have been proud to have cut this version of "In the Still of the Night." The wide range of emotions (from an exuberant "Bob White" to a somber "The Folks Who Live on the Hill") and Hyman's typically brilliant playing on the solo recital make this CD a particular standout.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Dick Hyman
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 08, 1927 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Stride, Classic Jazz, Standards, Lounge, Spy Music
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; played organ and early synthesizers in addition to piano; was Arthur Godfrey's music director (1959-1962); collaborated with Leonard Feather on some History of Jazz concerts (doubling on clarinet), and even performed rock and free jazz; but all of this was a prelude to his later work. In the 1970s, Hyman played with the New York Jazz Repertory Company, formed the Perfect Jazz Repertory Quintet (1976), and started writing soundtracks for Woody Allen films. He has recorded frequently during the past several decades (sometimes in duets with Ruby Braff) for Concord, Music Masters, and Reference, among other labels, and ranks at the top of the classic jazz field.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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