Richard Wyands

Richard Wyands ( born July 2, 1928 in Oakland ( California)) is an American jazz pianist.

Wyands had his musical career in the Bay Area started in 1944 and until 1956 with many local bands, including worked with Cal Tjaders band. He was a member of the house band at the Black Hawk and Facks jazz clubs. In 1956, he was for three months companion of Ella Fitzgerald, worked for several months in Ottawa, went on tour with Carmen McRae, and came in March 1958 to New York City. He played with Charles Mingus ( Jazz Portraits - Mingus In Wonderland, 1959). Between 1965 and 1975 he was a member of the band of Kenny Burrell. He also worked with Gigi Gryce, Jerome Richardson, Oliver Nelson, Benny Bailey, Etta Jones and Von Freeman and leads his own trio.

Among his musical heroes counts Wyands Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson and Hampton Hawes.

Discography

  • Richard Wyands Trio: Then, Here and Now
  • Richard Wyands Trio: Half and Half

Swell

  • Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London 2007
  • Nat Hentoff, liner notes to Mingus: Jazz Portraits
  • Jazz Pianist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1928
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