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Dick Hyman: Sacramento, 1980s

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Marc Myers
Jun 27, 2017
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Dick Hyman is easily one of the most gifted and accomplished living jazz pianists. Dick, who just turned 90, played with both Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie together in 1952 on TV, and he recorded with Lester Young and many other jazz greats. He recorded hundreds of albums on his own and as a sideman, and he knows more songs than any other jazz musi…

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