Dick Hyman

does anyone know anything about Dick Hyman? electric piano and moog
player/composer.
barney

 

barney wrote:
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> does anyone know anything about Dick Hyman? electric piano and moog
> player/composer.
> barney


gee this is real off subject

These days Hyman to me is by far the best known for his Woddy Allen film
scores, he does most of them. He's a jazz keyboardist who was already
into electric keyboards when he had the opportunity to do 2 Moog albums
when Moog music was all the novelty around 1970. He came out ahead of
the pack because he's a good composer, good sense of what works and has
way better keyboard "chops" than most anyone else, so its a good mix of
talents. In terms of people doing pop-like Moog stuff then only a couple
people come out ahead-- Perrey and Kinglsey.

All of one Moog album and some of the second are out on CD.

he does not sound like Tomita at all

His album "Moon Gas" and maybe some more are called electronic but have
no synths, just electric keyboards.

He did a new synth piece on "At Home with the Grovebox" which was on the
Beastie Boys old label last year. Interestingly he had to do a piece
with only the Roland 505 Groovebox but only found its theremin-like
D-Beam controller of interest.

nick

 

I have Dick Hyman's "MOOG" and its pretty good, very good little tunes