Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano 2009 (History of Jazz Piano Documentary Lessons)

The full Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano DVD!
In this video Dick Hyman explains various piano Jazz techniques.
Just like the Willie The Lion Smith documentary, I do NOT own the rights to this video.
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Wikipedia:
Richard Hyman (birth name) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 60-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017.
Hyman was born in New York City to Joseph C. Hyman and Lee Roven. He was trained classically by his mother's brother, the concert pianist Anton Rovinsky, who premiered The Celestial Railroad by Charles Ives in 1928. Hyman said of Rovinsky, "He was my most important teacher. I learned touch from him and a certain amount of repertoire, especially Beethoven. On my own I pursued Chopin. I loved his ability to take a melody and embellish it in different arbitrary ways, which is exactly what we do in jazz. Chopin would have been a terrific jazz pianist! His waltzes are in my improvising to this day." Hyman's older brother, Arthur, owned a jazz record collection and introduced him to the music of Bix Beiderbecke and Art Tatum.
Relax Records released Hyman's solo piano versions of "All the Things You Are" and "You Couldn't Be Cuter" around 1950. Hyman recorded two honky tonk piano albums under the pseudonym "Knuckles O'Toole and included two original compositions, and recorded more as "Willie the Rock Knox" and "Slugger Ryan".
As a studio musician in the 1950s Hyman performed with Charlie Parker for Parker's only film appearance. He worked as music director for Arthur Godfrey.
Hyman has worked as composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist for the Woody Allen films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Melinda and Melinda. His other film scores include Moonstruck, Scott Joplin, The Lemon Sisters and Alan and Naomi. His music has also been heard in Mask, Billy Bathgate, Two Weeks Notice, and other films. He was music director of The Movie Music of Woody Allen, which premiered at the Hollywood Bowl.
Hyman composed and performed the score for the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet Company's Piano Man, and Twyla Tharp's The Bum's Rush for the American Ballet Theatre. He was the pianist/conductor/arranger in Tharp's Eight Jelly Rolls, Baker's Dozen, and The Bix Pieces and similarly arranged and performed for Miles Davis: Porgy and Bess, a choreographed production of the Dance Theater of Dallas. In 2007, his Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which had been commissioned by the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, and set by Toni Pimble of the Eugene Ballet, premiered in Eugene, Oregon.
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0:00:00 Intro song Cheek To Cheek
0:00:30 Introduction
0:01:53 Lesson 1: Ragtime
0:04:42 Lesson 2: Jelly Roll Morton
0:09:20 Lesson 3: Boogie Woogie
0:13:56 Lesson 4: Stride Piano
0:18:40 Lesson 5: Earl Hines / Teddy Wilson
0:23:40 Lesson 6: The Rhythm Section
0:32:24 Lesson 7: Art Tatum
0:59:28 Lesson 8: Erroll Garner
1:06:39 Lesson 9: Bud Powell and Bebop
1:11:40 Lesson 10: George Shearing, Block Chords and orchestration
1:19:29 Lesson 11: Another look at Block Chords
1:24:10 Lesson 12: Bill Evans
1:33:46 Lesson 13: Nicholas Slonimsky to McCoy Tyner
1:40:28 Bonus Performance 1: Someone To Watch Over Me
1:43:17 Bonus Performance 2: Heliotrope Bouquet
1:48:50 Bonus Performance 3: Elite Syncopations
1:52:58 Bonus Performance 4: Carolina Shout
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[@itsRemco]

Also make sure to check out these documentaries I've uploaded: Willie "The Lion" (2004) [Rare Ragtime / Early Jazz Piano / Stride Piano Documentary] by Marc Fields kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2TFYquqaLtnfpo The Scott Joplin Documentary by Rudi Blesh 1977 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWGniYOGa9J9na8 Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Composers Short Documentary 1977 by Amelia Anderson kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIS9lKt3fbOdoqc

[@abrahamlugo9582]

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[@derrickwilliamson8280]

Enjoyed every note played . Whatever style wonderful

[@barrygordon5323]

Dick Hyman is simply the best all around pianist ever ,,and his knowledge is incredible.

[@vova47]

The Jazz Professor Dick Hyman has the whole jazz history covered. He's the best person to make this kind of video and is the MUST for every music student and lover. Thanks so much!!!

[@marianlevy9232]

An absolute reference library 📚 of jazz history, piano techniques, musical insights from a complete musical genius… amazing to see some of Tatum’s runs ‘decoded’ for us mere mortal pianists lol.. Dick Hyman is incredible

[@itsRemco]

In the upcoming days I'm going to upload each lesson separately as some people may have bad internet connection or don't want to search for specific lessons. So stay tuned! Hope you guys like it 😄 Btw I know that this documentary was uploaded to KZbin already but the quality was soooo poor that I just had to upload this one.

[@motob4406]

Man thankyou so much, i love the lesson on Earl Hines and Armstrong. Playing trumpet-style, fascinating stuff. Take care

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[@itsRemco]

@@mariorlanygarcia70 Never heard of it and when searching I grt to obscure sites 😂

[@MARKMANIATT]

What a shame no one thought to stick an overhead camera on some of the greats no longer with us. Art Tatum, Mel Powell, Teddy Wilson,Dodo Marmarosa, Basie etc. A superb video by a master of the idiom and instrument.

[@itsRemco]

Agreed!

[@jeremyellismusic]

I just had pretty much the best lesson of my life and it's only half way through.

[@itsRemco]

Glad you enjoy it so far!

[@vincentdesiano4861]

The great Dick Hyman, the best of the best !

[@opale1572]

Yo no sé si es el mejor, pero sí el más completo.

[@Photologistic]

Ok, so now, rather than sight reading 10-20 tunes, I’m actually practicing, trying to learn a fraction of this. Pure gold. Thank you!

[@itsRemco]

Good luck! With theory like this you would be able to come up with tunes yourself instead of being dependent on some sheet music. That's why all those pro piano players only ask "yoo what key?"

[@monkeyrater]

Very valuable video. Jazz people are not very good at explaining what Jazz is and rely on hype and flowery talk TBH. Finally someone demonstrates all the genres of Jazz.

[@itsRemco]

Totally agreed!

[@opale1572]

Yo creo que lo que principalmente ocurre es que hay un secretismo generalizado, similar al de los que hacen trucos de magia y, en general, en cualquier gremio. No es tanto que no sepan explicar lo que hacen y cómo lo hacen, sino que no les da la gana. Pero como en todo, hay excepciones, y Hyman era una de ellas.

[@johnmorgan5495]

Pure genius, All of it, the great Originals and Dick Hyman for all his inspiration and explanation .

[@alonsodelafuente9802]

THANK YO SO MUCH FOR THIS! i have been searching for this full video for a long time

[@Albert_XXI]

Pure Gold.Thank you very..very much.

[@alanwann9318]

Amazing piano technique

[@Spektrob]

This is an absolute gem!!! Thanks you for uploading this treasure!

[@OzouneSundalyah]

Wow! Thanks so very much for sharing this. A copious amount of information here!!!

[@craigdylan3953]

Love your stuff Dick... a lot of hours on the seat and in the music books. Nice to hear yah.

[@imfunaplaymahgames8880]

DUUUDE!, THANK YOU!, ... I’ve always watched the dick Hyman clips that some channels have of this documentary. But you have the whole documentary!!.. THANK YOU MAN... seriously. 🙏🏼

[@KirbySweg]

Thank you so so much for posting this!

[@itsRemco]

No prob! I was thinking about our little convo 2 days ago 😂 and yeah a lesson video like this might be of great help

[@afpseb4582]

Thanks mister remco. This one is great. Lesson 8 always nailed it✌️👍✈️

[@ottatarrega4011]

What a gold! Thank You!

[@Aaron-md2eo]

You are a hero!!!

[@louissiciliano5056]

Awesome!!! Thank you so so much.

[@Theod71]

This is gold!

[@uriben-gal6620]

Brilliant man.

[@jakemcaleer1752]

This is gold brother 😯👍🏼

[@pianoyam]

Oh my gosh thank you so much for posting this! I had the CD-ROMs for this ages ago, and I was only able to rescue some of the MIDI files before obsolescence took over

[@itsRemco]

There were midi files included? I only have some .flac files of his performances

[@julesamico5374]

Thank you very much for this one, this is very instructive

[@GeometryDashAcamar]

How generous it is for you to upload these footages. These are highly informative.

[@itsRemco]

Thanks 😁

[@Palindrome3945]

The Eroll Garner bit is just so cool.

[@itsRemco]

Right? Mannn Dick really can impersonate all of them

[@grandpastunes769]

Oh, you're awesome. Seen snippets of these lessons and they seem really good.

[@itsRemco]

They are man!

[@Alffovinni]

this is a fantastic resource!

[@BobMazzo]

I know it was available to purchase in the past. Happy to see he released it on KZbin.

[@itsRemco]

Also make sure to watch the Willie The Lion Smith Stride Piano documentary I uploaded 😁

[@rmoellering3]

Thank you so much. This is an absolute treasure.

[@skimanization]

Awesome!!! As a non pianist I always marvelled at runs on the piano and always wondered how they do it. Thanks Prof for going slow!!!

[@opale1572]

Impresionante, por supuesto. Pero si todo consistiese en saber qué notas concretas tocan, sería demasiado fácil, me temo.

[@aholder4471]

14k people just had their minds blown with the best jazz piano history lesson they've ever heard. +1....14,001.

[@denesdosztanmusic]

Thank you!

[@Louise-Jzz]

This is pure talent oh my godness me

[@joetorres9347]

What a magnificent work of art. You should be congratulated for your time & effort in putting such an enjoyable & Informative history of jazz piano. In your next effort you may consider the addition of Latin Jazz piano Thanks again. Joe Torres

[@itsRemco]

Thanks Joe! 😁

[@calvinhuber5779]

sounds like miles and I had the same experience LOL!! Iordered the cd and was waiting for it then Corona !

[@itsRemco]

Ahh 😭😭

[@enslimed]

Seeing all the little tricks Art Tatum used come together in that performance of Body and Soul made me shit my pants. That crazy colorful harmony makes so much more sense now, it didn't just appear out of thin air

[@post_historic]

If you want to pop your jazz cherry, look no further than Dick Hymen!

[@xXDimistreoXx]

You dont wanna know what his daughters name is

[@ZeAlfredo]

It is interesting how the diatonicism of the early jazz came back in modal jazz but because the mode is the key and not the acrual key itself it has a new sound. So" history does not repeat itself but it does rhyme. "

[@supadreify1]

Bro.... you are the GOAT!!!! 💯💯

[@opale1572]

Menudo elogio. 🤣

[@natavieira1]

Obrigado! Thanks!

[@ZeAlfredo]

Phil moore actually invented the block chords that Milt buckner copied from him which george shearing learn from him. But According Barry Harris Bud powell also played block chords like this just not as often as shearing which is where Barris a6th dimished scale comes. Further the block chord arramging technique was used as far back as barbershop quartets and louis Armstrong. Count baisie and duke ellington.

[@itsRemco]

Eubie Blake also already used the Block chords technique, not like heavily specific but it's interesting to hear the origins. You can hear it in his Chevy Chase composition

[@opale1572]

Es que una cosa es "inventar" y otra hacer un uso frecuente y sistemático de lo inventado.

[@Palindrome3945]

Who is playing the intro song please ?

[@itsRemco]

Dick Hyman and probably some of his friends. The title is CHeek to Cheek

[@jackhenshaw2555]

Holy shit this guy has big hands

[@joeycartwright1692]

He had to start the Db-F 10th with his other hand, though! Which a lot of players like Tatum and Peterson were fortunate enough to be able to reach.

[@user-bh1fo2wg1g]

Also, Franz List’s Stride Piano pieces, like the Hungarian Rhapsodies

[@itsRemco]

That's more of a Ragtime syncopation, not really Stride Piano

[@anonymousaccount3195]

i was looking for this cd on youtube.... what the heck are the odds that you are the one who posted it exoticpianoman 😂😂😂 thank you once again! by the way do you know what are the chords being played for the section about erroll garner starting from 1:03:05 to 1:03:21 i cant seem to get it down

[@ZeAlfredo]

Nonetheless, this is a very complete overview of Jazz piano history.

[@itsRemco]

Personally I find Ken Burns' documentaries more complete about the history, Hyman's DVD is more on the auditive history

[@mattreid7421]

I’ve spent the last 2 hours trying to find how to buy the DVD. Any suggestions? 😀 Thanks!

[@itsRemco]

Hi! www.amazon.com/Century-Jazz-Piano-5CDs-DVD/dp/B002PHV1GI

[@mattreid7421]

Thanks! I saw that but wasn’t sure the CD and DVD came together.

[@kenseidman409]

By now, you probably are aware of the book as well...

[@mattreid7421]

Book? Not at all!

[@aholder4471]

I thought of Goliwogs cakewalk by Debusy in the first section before he said cakewalk. I thought that sounds like a simpler version but now I have to go Google when Debusy wrote it.

[@itsRemco]

I've uploaded that one

[@chrisSkordPiano]

Wow thank you for this!!! What An amazing pianist and so much information!!! I loved it!!! My only question is why thelonious monk and Duke Ellington were not mentioned as they are the 2 most recorded jazz artists

[@itsRemco]

That's also my question 😂 but there is another Documentary series James "Jazz - a documentary by Ken Burns" now that one is good 👌🏾 KZbin doesn't allow me to upload the series so people would have buy/rent it somewhere

[@chrisSkordPiano]

@@itsRemco I really liked that he talked about art and Willie the lion but you can't talk about bebop without thelonious monk haha or talk about jazz piano without Duke Ellington but I guess he wanted to cover the more less known but for me it's a sin to have mc Tyner and not thelonious monk

[@itsRemco]

@@chrisSkordPiano yeah I know man, but I think that the purpose of this documentary is to mention the piano styles instead of individual composers. He also didn't mentioned Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane etc. That's why you have to check out the Jazz documentary by Ken Burns 😁

[@chrisSkordPiano]

@@itsRemco yes but thelonious monk aproach to the piano was so unique. That's why it's weird he didn't mention his style alot of people were salty about how simple and genius thelonious was

[@martinsaltzman5003]

@@chrisSkordPiano If you check out the CDs of "A Century of Jazz Piano" on Amazon, you will see many more pianists covered including Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. But you have to buy the CD set.

[@fabm6724]

The intro melody is from any specific music piece?

[@itsRemco]

It's Dick Hyman's version of Cheek to Cheek. At the end of the video you can hear it in its entirety

[@fabm6724]

exoticpianoman Thanks! By the way, did you that piece on your records?

[@itsRemco]

@@fabm6724 I haven't uploaded a Cheek to Cheek yet but I will do so

[@fabm6724]

exoticpianoman Would be great!

[@_yxngwxlf_]

23:46 song name? or was the piece just an improvisation

[@itsRemco]

I think he's explaining and demonstrating the theory on Back Home Again In Indiana

[@itsRemco]

Yeah at 25:43 he mentions Indiana

[@_yxngwxlf_]

Thank you , and thank you for uploading this gem@@itsRemco

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

I guess Dick isn’t a Monk fan then, would have loved to hear his thoughts on how Monk deconstructed the Harlem stride approach….

[@opale1572]

Mejor construir que deconstruir.

[@ZeAlfredo]

His section on (another look at block chords) starts woth Barry Harris 6 dimished scale but he doesn't credit him with it. Odd

[@xXDimistreoXx]

RIP Barry :(

[@opale1572]

Qué obsesión con Barry Harris.

[@ZeAlfredo]

@@opale1572 El era uno de los mejores pianistas de bebop, y incluso mejor maestro. El enseñaba de una manera que la gente pudiera entender mejor la música

[@ZeAlfredo]

@@opale1572 también, el enseñó de tal manera de que los pianistas aprendieran como MOVER las acordes mientras que ellos acompaña la música. En las escuelas las pianistas dieron "tocadas" o sea cuchilladas y no había mucho movimiento. Más segundo lo que human demostró en el video, movimiento de acordes de bloco es una característica de jazz. Así que esto resulta en el hecho de que Barry Harris y las enseñanzas de el, merece más atención por ser la cartilaje conectativa entre el swing y el bebop

[@opale1572]

​@@ZeAlfredoSi a usted sólo le interesa el bebop, quizá ese Harris sea "mejor" profesor. Pero a algunos nos gustan los estilos anteriores tanto o más que el bebop, y en eso reside el gran mérito de Hyman: probablemente, es el único pianista que tiene un conocimiento total y absoluto del panorama del jazz. Por otra parte, yo he visto algún video de Harris dando una "lección" y, aunque admito que no domino mucho el inglés, lo entiendo lo suficiente para saber si alguien se explica bien y si es ameno. Y la verdad es que Harris me aburrió.

[@thephilosopherofculture4559]

Wow! Thank you very much. Connect to Gjermund Sivertsen for promoting your post. He'll integrate it into his piano lessons.

[@itsRemco]

Thanks! How are you so sure he would do that? And what would be the best way to contact him?

[@milesroyce6395]

Just payed $70 CAD for the dvd...

[@itsRemco]

Well you also received the .flac files with the DVD, I haven't uploaded those over here

[@rockyhill9965]

The irony of Art Tatum is that when his playing is transcribed reliably and you start to work out the fingerings, you may hear that you are playing "wrong sounding notes" according to what you might have expected. That, I think, is from the "following through" the phrase where there might be passing chord harmony played. And without that Art Tatum velocity, the passing harmony loses that flow that gives the thrill to the listener. Or so it seems to me.

[@itsRemco]

That's a thorough analysis 🔥 I think that Art Tatum'a velocity is a big part indeed. With the AI videos I made it waa a strange job to appoint the fingering as some grips made no sense (in slow motion)

[@opale1572]

Estoy plenamente de acuerdo. En la música clásica ocurre igual: hay ciertas obras que sólo suenan "bien" cuando se tocan a su velocidad normal; pero cuando se están estudiando y, por tanto, se tocan muy lentamente, no parece que tengan sentido ( aunque se toquen las notas correctas ).

[@ZeAlfredo]

According to Barry Harris as well Hank Jones was pretty much playing everything that Bill Evans was playing before bill did it. Im surprised only passing mention is made to Barry harris and none to hank jones.

[@Piratebreadstick]

Barry Harris was one of those musicians who was brilliant when he played and was a very great teacher, yet when he spoke, was often full of shit. Hank Jones was one of the best in the business and a gorgeous player, but Evans was a genius. Harris also said terrible things about Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarret, which he was entitled to do, as it was his opinion, but it's dangerous when some of the things he said become gospel amongst young musicians.

[@xXDimistreoXx]

RIP Barry Harris

[@opale1572]

Si hubiera que citar a todos los pianistas habidos y por haber y además dar ejemplos, ni Hyman ni nadie habría conseguido todavía completar esa antología.

[@iangrimsley386]

I think Art Tatum would have approved of your dextrous, and eloquent Body And Soul. He was uniquely gifted. Google André Previn tête-à-tête with Oscar Peterson. I am now 65, played from 3 until Dupeytens Contracture in 4 & 5 on both hands stopped me striding. I would love to hear you play James P. Johnson's "The Charleston". His original QRS piano roll is available from "ItsRemco" on KZbin. You are a gifted teacher ... 🖖

[@itsRemco]

I hope Dick Hyman would read this someday

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

Underneath the keyboard to the right you see a pianola installation, which is typically American to do and costs as much as the piano itself. I found it absolutely crazy. For the cost of such a useless installation, you could equip a whole band with the latest and best electronics and bass and drums and what not. We got a Yamaha grand of €50000 for free. When asked about the exorbitant price , the answer was that it had a pianola installation costing $28000. The idiots thought we would like that. No no no no. We would have preferred to spend that money on PA, drums, a Yamaha Motif XF8, a Nord, and so on. We have this now for 3 years and I used it only once for reheasal purposes but quit because it was not flexible enough. Completely nuts. We don't live in 1880 any more, although perhaps Americans do, half of them seem to got stuck in 1787.

[@itsRemco]

Haahah interesting comment Waarschijnlijk is onze kijk daar heel anders op aangezien we beiden niet uit de VS komen idd 😂

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

@@itsRemco Nou, die Hyman speelt heel wat nummers waarvan ik dacht dat die alleen nog in pianola's te horen waren. Misschien dat ze dat daar leuk vinden omdat het tot hun 'heritage' behoort? Niettemin blijft het zonde van het geld dat ik liever anders had besteed.

[@itsRemco]

@@charlesvanderhoog7056 Zou je dan wel bijv zo'n zelf-spelende Yamaha vleugel kopen (die midi bestanden als invoer heeft ipv piano rolls)?

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

@@itsRemco Haha, nee, die tijd is voorbij. Je kunt mijn Knight K-10 piano gebouwd in 1983 kopen als je wilt. Heel fijn instrument. Ik heb al jaren een Roland en sinds kort eindelijk een Motif XF8. Ik treed overigens af en toe nog wel op op een Yamaha vleugel. Mooie bassen heeft die. Maar de laatste keer was 29 februari 2020 als begeleider van zangeressen.

[@opale1572]

​@@charlesvanderhoog7056Me pregunto qué nos importa todo eso al resto de la gente.

[@troyjon9]

OMG so glad I found this. Thank you

[@itsRemco]

Glad you found my channel, have fun! 😁