Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington

by Dick Hyman

Overview

Performed (as was Dick Hyman's previous Fats Waller project) on a Bosendorfer Reproducing Piano and actually recorded from the piano at a later date (one really cannot tell the difference), this outing finds the great Hyman interpreting 14 of Duke Ellington's compositions. Most intriguing are Ellington's nearly atonal "The Clothed Woman" and "Tonk" in which Hyman somehow duplicates an Ellington-Billy Strayhorn piano duet! Other highlights include the joyous "Drop Me Off In Harlem," "Doin' the Voom Voom," "Echoes of Harlem" and "The Gal from Joe's." The recording is as rewarding as one would expect. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/27/1993
Label:	REFERENCE RECORDINGS
UPC:	0030911105020

Tracks

1. Jubilee Stomp
2. Drop Me off in Harlem
3. The Clothed Woman
4. Sophisticated Lady
5. Doin' the Voom Voom
6. On a Turquoise Cloud
7. All Too Soon
8. Tonk
9. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
10. Echoes of Harlem
11. Prelude to a Kiss
12. The Gal from Joe's
13. Day Dream
14. Come Sunday

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dick Hyman   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

John Redmond   Composer
Irving Gordon   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Leonard Feather   Liner Notes
Billy Strayhorn   Composer
Nick A. Kenny   Composer
Les Brown   Composer
Bubber Miley   Composer
Mitchell Parish   Composer
Henry Nemo   Composer
Carl Sigman   Composer
J. Tamblyn Henderson, Jr.   Producer,Mastering,Liner Notes,Executive Producer
Lawrence Brown   Composer
Kenny Lee   Mastering
Jeff Kaufman   Photography
Keith O. Johnson   Engineer
Kenneth Lee   Mastering
Marcia Martin   Executive Producer
Robert Harley   Mastering
Michael "Pflash" Pflaumer   Engineer,Second Engineer
Beck Rowell   Mastering
Robert Cloutier   Technician
Wayne Stahnke   Editing,Liner Notes
Michael Kemper   Technician
Gavin Martin   Editing
John Latouche   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer