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Complete Works for Piano by Joplin, Scott / Hyman, Dick (CD, 2023)

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Now at last, Sony Classical is issuing Hyman's entire Joplin album on three well-filled silver discs. This really is Joplin's complete piano output. Also here are Joplin's less familiar marches and waltzes.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelSynx, Sony Masterworks

UPC0196587923624

eBay Product ID (ePID)14071179543

Product Key Features

Release Year2023

FormatCD

GenreJazz

ArtistJoplin, Scott / Hyman, Dick

Release TitleComplete Works for Piano

Dimensions

Item Height0.94 in

Item Weight0.46 lb

Item Length5.62 in

Item Width4.95 in

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Number of Discs3

NotesBetween January and April 1975, the classically trained, multi-award-winning jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman - whose astounding résumé includes playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman, writing and arranging for Count Basie, and scoring most of the films of Woody Allen - went into RCA's Studio A in New York City and set down the definitive recording of ragtime legend Scott Joplin's piano works. In 1988, an hour-long selection from the five LPs was released on CD. Now at last, Sony Classical is issuing Hyman's entire Joplin album on three well-filled silver discs. This really is Joplin's complete piano output. It even includes the six short exercises that form his 1908 School of Ragtime, with their printed prefatory remarks read by the 92-year-old Eubie Blake, a friend of Joplin and a distinguished ragtime player in his own right. Also here are Joplin's less familiar marches and waltzes. And there's a bonus: the set contains Hyman's own twelve delightful improvisations on themes by Joplin, which he designed to demonstrate the composer's influence on the development of jazz harmony and melody. When the LPs were first released, Gramophone's jazz critic wrote that "the eminently musical quality of Hyman's playing is in evidence throughout the collection; he has the ability to characterise perfectly each piece and somehow to pinpoint every little harmonic subtlety and melodic felicity without in any way detracting from the conception as a whole... He pays as much attention to matters of tempo, texture, phrasing and dynamics as though he were doing the twenty-four Chopin Preludes. Two for instance I particularly enjoyed were Cascades with it's rippling lightness of touch and Scott Joplin's New Rag in which Hyman's cleanness of articulation and rhythmic exuberance are a joy.... Joplin well deserves this very handsome and well-recorded tribute."