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Richard “Dick” Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a... 50 year career, he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer. 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. Dick Hyman was trained classically by his mother's brother, the concert pianist Anton Rovinsky, a fixture of the pre-war art scene in New York, noted for having premiered some of Charles Ives's works, such as The Celestial Railroad 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." Dick's older brother, Arthur, introduced him to the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, and others.
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The Hamptons are a group of villages and hamlets in the townships of Southampton and East Hampton, which form the South Fork of Long Island, New York. The Hamptons form a popular seaside resort, one of the historical summer colonies of the American Northeast. They have some of the most expensive... residential properties in the U.S. The Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, the Montauk Highway, and the Hampton Jitney connect the Hamptons to the rest of Long Island and to New York City, while ferries provide connections to Shelter Island, New York and to Connecticut. The Hamptons include hamlets and villages in the town of Southampton: The Hamptons include the following hamlets and villages in the town of East Hampton: The hamlet Northampton, Suffolk County, New York, further west in the Town of Southampton, is not generally included. Manorville is also known for its close proximity to the Hamptons, earning the nickname "The Gateway to the Hamptons." The Hamptons and Hamptons society are frequently featured on-screen and mentioned in films and television.
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