Dick Hyman American keyboard player and composer, born March 8, 1927 in New York City, New York. Hyman studied at Columbia University and played with musicians like Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo, and Benny Goodman. He recorded under different pseudonyms and in 1955 recorded a cover of "[i]Dick Hyman[/i]" on harpsichord with his trio which sold over a million copies. During late 1960s he investigated the earliest periods of jazz and ragtime and researched and recorded the music of some of the first early jazz figures. Hyman experimented with various keyboard instruments, including Baldwin and Lowrey organs. In the late 1960's he recorded a series of avantgarde albums using a minimoog synthesizer. He recorded some of the most appreciated albums from the space age pop. Hyman has also worked for TV, scoring film soundtracks for Woody Allen, and as a jazz pianist and organist. Review: The suggestively named Dick Hyman is best known to moviegoers as Woody Allen's main musical man -- he frequently gets to show off his Traditional Jazz piano chops on Allen's soundtracks. Mastering every style from Stride to Swing to Bop to Avant-Garde, Hyman is also loved by Lounge loafers for his bizarre, but always interesting, Moog and synth work of the late 1960s. Aliases: J. Gaines, The Organ Masters, Godfrey Malcolm, Richard Wayne, David Harkness, Richard Lowman, Rod Gregory, Stanley Sokol, Nero Young, Slugger Ryan, Stomp Kelley, Serge Sputnick, Jack Schwartz

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