"dick Wall"

Dick de Graaf celebrates a 40 year career in jazz with “Festive”. He had won the Dutch Jazz Competition in 1981. Dick has performed at many national and international jazz stages ever since. He played with a.o. Chet Baker, Misha Mengelberg, Kenny Weeler, Benny Golson, Billy Hart, Toumani Diabaté and Erkan Ogur. He shares his memoirs in the 40 page book (LP size – Dutch language) that accompany 8 compositions (7 new ones by Dick, and a wonderful arrangement of Paul McCartney’s Eleanor Rigby).

Between January and April 1975, classically trained, award-winning jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman - whose prodigious resume includes playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman, writing and arranging for Count Basie, and scoring most of Woody Allen's films - went to RCA's Studio A in New York City and made the definitive recording of ragtime legend Scott Joplin's piano works.