| | Dick Hyman Stridemonster! CD Dick Hyman Discography of CDs
This is a particularly exciting set. Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood meet up on a variety of heated selections and try to outstride each other. Wellstood (just a year before his death) has "Caravan" as his feature while Hyman takes "I've Got a Crush on You" solo, but it is the eight collaborations (particularly "Keep Off the Grass," "Birmingham Breakdown" and "What's the Use of Being Alone") that are most memorable. This album was put out by the Canadian Unisson label and is quite exciting. [A U.K. version of Stridemonster! was also released.] ~ Scott Yanow
Stridemonster! is the piano playing twosome of Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood. They revere the works of James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Willie "The Lion" Smith and all the other early stridemonsters, and they create their music in that spirit of wanton heeJazzTimes (p.94) - "Hyman is very much with us and provides a new essay that updates his and Wellstood's wry original liner notes....This is an essential album." Dick Hyman Stridemonster! Songs Stridemonster! Review
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Ruby Braff was 75 years old and terrorists had just destroyed the World Trade Center when this session was recorded in New York on September 12, 2001. Those two facts could reasonably have been expected to put the kibosh on the recording project -- but for one thing, age seems to have no effect on Braff, and for another, he and drummer Jake Hanna weren't going to be able to go anywhere anyway. Pianist Dick Hyman was there already and they were able to get guitarist Howard Alden into Manhattan from his apartment in Hoboken to substitute for Bucky Pizzarelli, so they went ahead with what was initially a somber (and bass-less) session. Amazingly, there is nothing heavy or dark about the music recorded here, though it is intense. Braff plays, it almost seems, as if reviewing his life: The New Orleans-y smears and the sly Charlie Parker quotes are reflective if not nostalgic, though there is a distinct lack of sentimentality in the way he gently forces the swing on "Over the Rainbow." Hyman, Alden, and Hanna push him along but keep out of his way, and the result is a brilliant set that showcases one of the living treasures of jazz playing at the peak of his powers in an ...
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There's nothing like a completely different approach to render familiar music fresh, and as the title to Dick Hyman and Tom Pletcher's album suggests, they had a great idea. If Bix Played Gershwin is governed by the simple idea of arranging 18 Gershwin tunes in the classic jazz style utilized by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Pianist Hyman and cornetist Pletcher are joined by a fairly large ensemble including clarinetist Dan Levinson, trombonist David Sager, bass saxophonist Vince Giordano, guitarist-banjo player Bob Leary, and percussionist Ed Metz, Jr.. What makes the idea more than just an exercise is the ...
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Johnny Guarnieri was a brilliant stride and swing pianist who, when he wanted to, could closely imitate a variety of top keyboardists, including Art Tatum, Count Basie and Fats Waller. Comprised exclusively of Fats' songs, this tribute to Waller, reissued in 1998, finds Guarnieri taking a dozen consistently outstanding piano solos. The CD reissue differs from the original LP in that four of the songs are here heard in different takes than were previously available, and there is a previously unreleased "Clothes Line Ballet" substituting for another song. When one considers that this CD has just 44 minutes of music, one regrets that the other five performances could not have been included here too. Guarnieri is in ...
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