![]() Hyman's career is pretty intimidating in its achievements and scope. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in well over 100 albums recorded under his own name and many more in support of other artists. Over a 50-year career, he has functioned as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as a composer. Richard "Dick" Hyman (born March 8, 1927, New York City) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy, let me know your feelings about it! I did my best to fix all the usual crackles and pops, but the two quieter tracks on Side B were a nightmare and I really couldn't do much to properly restore them. Now it's my pleasure to share a remastered stereo version of the album with you here. It looks like the original stereo masters are lost forever, or at least they are very well hidden in some secret underground storage unit. In the meantime, following the mono CD released in Japan back in 2003, the album was finally re-issued in Australia and Europe - both on CD and vinyl - and guess what? Yes, it was mono again, and again and again. A few months later, a reader of this blog was kind enough to send me a FLAC rip of the original stereo album (.thank you Al!!!) and I began to work on it in background mode. ![]() I dedicated a post to the mono version of this album in mid November 2014 and promised to offer the stereo version as soon as I was able to obtain a decent copy. ![]()
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