As a young jazz pianist
Dick Hyman kept the best of musical company -
Charlie Parker , Benny Goodman and Lester Young. After years as a studio pianist in New York, which he combined with arranging and composing, he is now an established solo artist. He demonstrates to
Russell Davies and a studio audience the ways in which the great jazz pianists contributed - Scott Joplin , Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson , Earl Hines , Fats Waller , Teddy Wilson , Art Tatum , Erroll Garner , Bud Powell , Bill Evans , McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor. Lighting BRIAN CLEMETT
Sound ADRIAN BISHOP-LAGGETT Director TOM CORCORAN Producer Philip SPEIGHT