The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – Merry Christmas (1971) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – Merry Christmas (1971)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 27:09 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Camden

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 his own name. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller, which he often features in his frequent recitals. Other solo recordings include the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Duke Ellington. Some of his past recordings with combos are From The Age Of Swing, Swing Is Here, Cheek To Cheek, and If Bix Played Gershwin, plus numerous duet albums with cornetist Ruby Braff, and fellow pianists including Ralph Sutton, Shelly Berg, Derek Smith. In a very different vein, Mr. Hyman was one of the first to record on the Moog synthesizer, and his Minotaur landed on the Billboard charts.

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The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – My Favorite Things and Other Hits (1969) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Organ Masters & Dick Hyman – My Favorite Things and Other Hits (1969)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 26:41 minutes | 953 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Richard Hyman 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. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.

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