Old ragtime piano player music at it’s best. Featuring classics like: Hello, My Baby! • Tiger Rag • Chattanooga Choo Choo • Satin Doll • Pretty Baby • Yes Sir, That’s My Baby • Bumble Boogie • Me and My Shadow • Yes! We Have No Bananas • Charleston Rag- Varsity Rag • Alexander’s Ragtime Band, and more. All passionately played on the Steinway player piano. (Klavier)

Dick Hyman's approach to solo piano is both rich in tradition and deeply personal, an odyssey into the wellsprings of American music. Ranging through a repertoire of well-known standards and sometimes obscure delights, Hyman brings a wealth of piano techniques, infectious swing, and a knack for sometimes extravagant variations, including a version of "Just You, Just Me" that ranges from classic stride playing to interpolated soul jazz. Among the little-heard pieces are "Odeon," a 1905 composition by Brazilian Ernesto Nazareth that adds a Latin touch to a ragtime foundation, and James P. Johnson's exuberant "Carolina Shout." Hyman's version of the traditional ballad "Shenandoah" is especially inspired, a lovely rolling improvisation that presses its consonant harmonies toward the resonating world of minimalism. Recorded on a nine-foot Boesendorfer concert grand, this recital is both an audiophile's and piano lover's delight. --Stuart Broomer