Biography

A successful studio musician in the 1950s and the creator of the semi-novelty synth-jazz hit "The Minotaur" in '69, Dick Hyman is most recently known for the softly rippling piano music that provides the jazzy soul of several Woody Allen films, including STARDUST MEMORIES and ZELIG. He has also recorded extensively with jazz trumpeter Ruby Braff, and has worked as the artistic director of the popular "Jazz In July" concert series at the 92 Street Y in New York.

Top Tracks

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• A Foggy Day

• Ain't Misbehavin'

• All Of Me

• All The Things You Are

• As Time Goes By

• Blackbird

• Caprice Rag

• Caravan

• Carolina Shout

• Charleston

• Dinah

• Fingerbreaker

• Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself A Letter)

• Mr. Jelly Lord

• Pearls

• Snowy Morning Blues

• Tea For Two

• The Minotaur

• The Moog And Me

• Them There Eyes

• Topsy

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

Discography

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• In Concert at the Old Mill Inn

  Sackville (Canada) / Sackville Recordings

  2009

• Teddy Wilson in 4 Hands

  Echoes of Swing / Victoria

  2007

• Solo Piano Variations on the Great Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein

  Jazz Heritage Society

  2007

• Solo Piano Variations on the Great Songs of Rodgers & Hart

  Jazz Heritage Society

  2007

• Dick Hyman Plays the Keyboard Classics of the Nostalgic Years

  2006

• If Bix Played Gershwin

  Arbors

  2004

• Knuckles O'Toole Plays the Greatest All Time Ragtime Hits

  Siggnal

  2004

• Willie the Rock Knox Plays Ragtime/Slugger Ryan Plays Honky Tonk Music for Little Rasca

  Siggnal

  2004

• What Is There to Say?

  Victrola

  2003

• Forgotten Dreams: Archives of Novelty Piano (1920's-1930's)

  Arbors

  2002

• Barrel of Keys

  Jazz Connaisseur

  2001

• Just You, Just Me

  Sackville (Canada)

  2001

• Dick & Derek at the Movies

  Arbors

  1999

• There Will Never Be Another You

  Jazz Connaisseur

  1999

• In Recital

  Reference Recordings

  1998

• Cheek to Cheek

  Arbors

  1996

• Swing Is Here

  Reference Recordings

  1996

• Elegies Mostly With Niels Pedersen

  Gemini

  1995

• From the Age of Swing

  Reference Recordings

  1994

• The Gershwin Songbook: Jazz Variations

  Musicmasters

  1993

• Dick Hyman & Ralph Sutton

  Concord Jazz / Concord

  1993

• All Through the Night

  MusicMasters

  1991

• Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Dick Hyman

  Jazz Alliance

  1990

• Stridemonster!

  Sackville (Canada)

  1986

• Gulf Coast Blues

  Omega Music Poland

  1986

• Kitten on the Keys: The Piano Music of Zez Confrey

  RCA

  1983

• Eubie!

  Seven Star

  1983

• Fireworks

  Inner City

  1983

• Live at Michael's Pub

  Jazz Mania

  1981

• Say It with Music

  World Jazz

  1979

• The Music of Jelly Roll Morton

  Smithsonian Records

  1978

• Come and Trip It

  New World Records

  1978

• Themes and Variations on "A Child Is Born"

  Chiaroscuro

  1977

• Traditional Jazz Piano

  Project 3

  1977

• Charleston

  Columbia

  1976

• Satchmo Remembered

  Atlantic

  1974

• Some Rags, Some Stomps, and a Little Blues

  Columbia

  1973

• Solo Piano

  Project 3

  1973

• The Sensuous Piano of "D"

  Project 3

  1971

• Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman

  Varese Vintage / Varese

  1969

• Happening!

  Command

  1966

• Keyboard Kaleidoscope

  Command

  1964

• Provocative Piano, Vol. 2

  Command

  1961

• Oh, Captain!

  1958

• Gigi

  MGM

  1956