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American jazz pianist and composer

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. As a pianist, Hyman has been praised for his versatility. DownBeat magazine characterized him as "a pianist of longstanding grace and bountiful talent, with an ability to adapt to nearly any historical style, from stride to bop to modernist sound painting." His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.

Hyman was born in New York City on March 8, 1927 to Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven ( Rovinsky), and grew up in suburban Mount Vernon, New York. His older brother, Arthur, owned a jazz record collection and introduced him to the music of Bix Beiderbecke and Art Tatum. Hyman was trained classically by his mother's brother, the concert pianist Anton Rovinsky, who premiered The Celestial Railroad by Charles Ives in 1928. Hyman said of Rovinsky: "He was my most important teacher. I learned touch from him and a certain amount of repertoire, especially Beethoven. On my own I pursued Chopin. I loved his ability to take a melody and embellish it in different arbitrary ways, which is exactly what we do in jazz. Chopin would have been a terrific jazz pianist! His waltzes are in my improvising to this day." Hyman enlisted in the U. S. Army in June 1945, and was transferred to the U. S. Navy band department. “Once I got into the band department, I was working with much more experienced musicians than I was used to," Hyman once stated. "I’d played in a couple of kid bands in New York, playing dances, but the Navy meant business — I had to show up, read music, and be with a bunch of better players than I had run into." After leaving the Navy he attended Columbia University. While there, Hyman won a piano competition, for which the prize was 12 free lessons with swing era pianist Teddy Wilson. Hyman has said that he "fell in love with jazz" during this period.

Relax Records released Hyman's solo piano versions of "All the Things You Are" and "You Couldn't Be Cuter" around 1950. He recorded two honky tonk piano albums under the pseudonym "Knuckles O'Toole" (including two original compositions), and recorded more as "Willie the Rock Knox" and "Slugger Ryan". As a studio musician in the 1950s and early 1960s, Hyman performed with Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Guy Mitchell, Joni James, Marvin Rainwater, Ivory Joe Hunter, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, The Playmates, The Wildcats, The Kookie Cats, The Four Freshmen, The Four Sophomores, Mitch Miller, and many more. His extensive television studio work in New York in the 1950s and early 1960s included a stint as music director for Arthur Godfrey's television show from 1959 to 1961. Hyman has worked as composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist for the Woody Allen films Stardust Memories, Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Melinda and Melinda. His other film scores include French Quarter, Moonstruck, Scott Joplin, The Lemon Sisters and Alan and Naomi. His music has also been heard in Mask, Billy Bathgate, Two Weeks Notice, and other films. He was music director of The Movie Music of Woody Allen, which premiered at the Hollywood Bowl. Hyman composed and performed the score for the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet Company's Piano Man, and Twyla Tharp's The Bum's Rush for the American Ballet Theatre. He was the pianist/conductor/arranger in Tharp's Eight Jelly Rolls, Baker's Dozen, and The Bix Pieces and similarly arranged and performed for Miles Davis: Porgy and Bess, a choreographed production of the Dance Theater of Dallas. In 2007, his Adventures of Tom Sawyer, commissioned by the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts and produced for the stage by Toni Pimble of the Eugene Ballet, premiered in Eugene, Oregon. In the 1960s, Hyman recorded several pop albums on Enoch Light's Command Records. At first, he used the Lowrey organ, on the albums Electrodynamics (US No. 117), Fabulous (US No. 132), Keyboard Kaleidoscope and The Man from O. R. G. A. N. He later recorded several albums on the Moog synthesizer which mixed original compositions and cover versions, including Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman(Can No. 35), and The Age of Electronicus (US No. 110). The track "The Minotaur" from The Electric Eclectics (1969) charted in the US top 40 (US R&B Singles No. 27; Hot 100 No. 38) (No. 20 Canada), becoming the first Moog single hit (although, as originally released on 45, it was labeled as the B side to the shorter "Topless Dancers of Corfu"). Some elements from the track "The Moog and Me" (most notably the whistle that serves as the song's lead in) on the same album were sampled by Beck for the track "Sissyneck" on his 1996 album Odelay. Hyman has been a guest performer at jazz festivals and concert venues. Around 1995, Hyman and his wife, Julia, moved permanently to Venice, Florida.

RecordedReleasedTitleLabelNotes19531953September Song: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Kurt WeillProsceniumSolo piano19532009Autumn in New York: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Vernon DukeProsceniumSolo piano1955?Ragtime Piano (MH 33 147)Waldorf Music HallAs Willie "The Rock" Knox And His Orchestra1956Beside a Shady NookMGMTrio19581958GigiMGMTrio, with Eddie Safranski (bass), Don Lamond (drums)19581958Knuckles O'Toole Plays the Greatest All Time Ragtime HitsGrand Award (reissued by ABC in 1974)Trio (banjo and drums)1960After SixMGMTrio1960Provocative Piano, Vol. 2CommandWith orchestra19611961Dick Hyman and His TrioCommandTrio, with Joe Benjamin (bass), Osie Johnson (drums)19651965The Man from O. R. G. A. N. Command19671967Brasilian ImpressionsCommandWith various19681968MirrorsCommand19691969Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick HymanCommandHyman plays Moog19691969The Age of ElectronicusCommand1973Ragtime, Stomps and StrideProject1974Some Rags, Some Stomps, and a Little BluesColumbia19751975CharlestonColumbiaWith various1977Themes and Variations on "A Child Is Born"ChiaroscuroSolo piano19771994A Waltz Dressed in BlueReferenceTrio, with Michael Moore (bass), Ron Traxler (drums)19781978Come and Trip ItNew World19811981Cincinnati FatsOVC ATOS19831983Kitten on the Keys: The Piano Music of Zez ConfreyRCASolo piano1983They Got RhythmJazz Club of SarasotaDuo, with Derek Smith (piano); live at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, Florida, February 9, 198319841984EubieSine Qua NonSolo piano1985The Purple Rose of CairoMCAFilm soundtrack19872005Stridemonster!UnissonMost tracks duo, with Dick Wellstood (piano); one track each of solo piano19881988MoonstruckCapitolFilm soundtrack19951996Elegies, MostlyGeminiDuo, with Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass)1998?In RecitalReferenceSolo piano; in concert19981998Dick & Derek at the MoviesArborsDuo, with Derek Smith (piano)2001?2002Barrel of KeysJazz ConnaisseurDuo, with Louis Mazetier (piano); in concert20012002Forgotten DreamsArborsDuo, with John Sheridan (piano)20032004If Bix Played GershwinArborsWith Tom Pletcher (cornet), David Sager (trombone), Dan Levinson (clarinet, C melody sax), Vince Giordano (bass sax), Bob Leary (guitar, banjo, vocals), Ed Metz Jr (drums)2006?2007Teddy Wilson in 4 HandsEchoes of SwingMost tracks duo, with Chris Hopkins (piano); one track each of solo piano2006?2006Solo Piano Variations on the Great Songs of Rodgers & HammersteinJazz Heritage SocietySolo piano2007In Concert at the Old Mill InnSackvilleSolo piano; in concert2009?2010Danzas TropicalesRykowith Meral Güneyman20102012You're My EverythingVenusTrio, with Jay Leonhart (bass), Chuck Redd (drums)2013?Lock My HeartRed HouseDuo, with Heather Masse (vocals)20122013 Live at the KitanoVictoriaDuo, with Ken Peplowski (clarinet, tenor sax); in concert20142015House of PianosArborsSolo piano; in concert19922022One Step to ChicagoRivermontwith Peter Ecklund and Dick Sudhalter (cornet), Jon Erik Kellso (trumpet), Dan Barrett (trombone), Kenny Davern and Dan Levinson (clarinet), Ken Peplowski (tenor saxophone), Marty Grosz and Howard Alden (banjo/guitar), Vince Giordano (tuba/bass saxophone), Bob Haggart and Milt Hinton (bass), Tony DeNicola and Arnie Kinsella (drums)