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

The Eroll Garner bit is just so cool.

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

Brilliant man.

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

Amazing piano technique

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

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.

What a gold! Thank You!

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.

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

This is gold!

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

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

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.

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!!!

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

The great Dick Hyman, the best of the best !

teach me to play like sun ra, dick!

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

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.

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

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

Obrigado! Thanks!

OMG so glad I found this. Thank you

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

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

Pure Gold.Thank you very..very much.

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!

Thank you!

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

Holy shit this guy has big hands

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. "

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

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

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.

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.

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

Awesome!!! Thank you so so much.

here's several things for how to learn piano
Try practicing about 1 hour every day, or 1/2 an hour if you are very busy.
Do more practice whenever you can. For example, on weekends you could do more than 1 hour, perhaps two or 3, or even more. This is very helpful because it pulls you out of the routine of piano playing, and lets you practice more and perfects the pieces you play.
(I discovered about these and more on Denelle Piano Lesson website )

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!!!

this is a fantastic resource!

helll yeah doggy

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

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.

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