People interested in finding out more about Dick Hyman should visit the "Spaced
Out" website, which is primarily devoted to Enoch Light, guiding force behind
the Command label, on which many of Hyman's recordings appeared. There's a
fairly extensive interview with Dick that was done some time last year (hint:
click "interviews," or just scroll down)...
It's at
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/
(You'll even learn about the Dick - Woody connection!)
Incidentally, has anyone noted the weird separation in some of the Fila
Brazillia tracks? I'd swear some of their stuff was recorded circa 1967 in a
studio right down the hall from the four lads from Liverpool. And since I don't
have a physics textbook handy, can someone explain how it is that some of the
sounds seemed to drop out of the mix when I played Fila B.'s "Big Saddle" at a
gig the other night, with both left and right channels plugged onto a mono
system? Is this "phase cancelling," or was it just something I ate?
(Hmm - seems like the inverse of the weird additive effect I get in my living
room with Eno's 3-speaker "ambient" system...)
dave
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