In Recital

by Dick Hyman

Overview

This is the type of recording opportunity that many jazz pianists dream of: a perfectly tuned superior sounding nine-foot grand in an acoustically exceptional performance hall (The Maestro Foundation, which is actually within an elegant private home!) with an attentive and extremely quiet audience. Dick Hyman takes advantage of all these factors, adding his wide ranging taste in jazz and impeccable playing technique to produce a very memorable CD of solo piano. His stunning opener is a fabulous interpretation of "The Way You Look Tonight," and the program also includes stride ("Carolina Shout"), playful takes of "Just You, Just Me" and "Tea for Two," an elegant waltzing "Lover," and the obscure "Odeon" from the early days of the 20th century. Hyman also adds his jaunty tribute to Bix Beiderbecke ("Thinking About Bix") and delivers a breathtaking treatment of "Shenandoah," a piece of Americana that has retained universal appeal over its long history. Although Dick Hyman has made superb CDs and LPs over his decades-long career, this masterpiece should be considered essential, too, by fans of jazz piano. ~ Ken Dryden

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/1998
Label:	Reference Recordings
UPC:	0030911108427
Rank:	152001

Tracks

1. The Way You Look Tonight
2. Lost in the Stars
3. Just You, Just Me
4. Tea for Two
5. Odeon
6. The Song Is You
7. Lover
8. Thinking About Bix
9. Shenandoah
10. All the Things You Are
11. Carolina Shout

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dick Hyman   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Marcia Martin   Executive Producer
Traditional   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Paul Stubblebine   Editing,Mastering
James P. Johnson   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Dick Hyman   Composer
Jesse Greer   Composer
Raymond Klages   Composer
Vincent Youmans   Composer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Ernesto Nazareth   Composer
Irving Caesar   Composer
J. Tamblyn Henderson, Jr.   Producer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Jeff Kaufman   Photography
Richard Davenport   Piano Technician
Maxwell Anderson   Composer
Keith O. Johnson   Engineer
Floyd Levin   Liner Notes
William Roarty   Design