Dick Hyman

May 7: Jazz legend Dick Hyman presents his third clinic at Salon Piano Series.

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/event/2181676. $20. Service fees may apply.

May 8, 4pm, concert: Dick will regale us with solo piano for half the concert. Then bassist John Schaffer and drummer John Lombardo will join Dick in a jazz trio.

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/event/2181682. $45 in advance, $50 at the door. Service fees may apply.

Since he began his career in the early 1950s, Dick Hyman has been a pianist, organist, arranger, music director and composer, while recording over 100 albums under his own name. Hyman is a masterful improviser with a unique style of piano that spans from early jazz such as Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton to George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and beyond. He is one of the first people to record on the Moog synthesizer and his track "Minotaur" landed on the Billboard US Top 40.

Mr. Hyman has served as composer/arranger/conductor/pianist for twelve Woody Allen films. He also won an Emmy for his original score to the daytime drama "Sunshine's on the Way" and for musical direction of a PBS special on Eubie Blake. His recording, Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano is an encyclopedic series of solo performances that covers the last 100 years in jazz over the course of 121 performances.