Tony Hymas

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Anthony "Tony" Hymas (born September 23, 1943 ) is a British composer and pianist ( keyboards , synthesizer ), who has emerged in both jazz and rock music .

Live and act

Hymas began as a choirboy at Exeter Cathedral ; then he studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Harold Rubens. In London he soon found a connection to the jazz scene. In 1964 he belonged to the quintet of Henry Lowther and Lyn Dobson, but also to the band of Don Brown. For the next few years he worked as a pianist and composer for the Ballet Rambert . In 1972 he began to work as a film and television composer; he first wrote the subject for the cartoon Mr. Men . During this time he also worked for Johnny Dankworth , Cleo Laine and Stan Sulzmann ; he also accompanied Jane Manning and Frank Sinatra .

In 1976 Jack Bruce brought him into his band, with whom he also toured internationally; In 1978 he toured Japan with Jeff Beck and Stanley Clarke , which led to a lengthy collaboration with Beck, for whom he wrote many songs, including the recording of the albums There and Back (1980) and Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop (1989; Grammy) Award 1990 ), Who Else (1998) was involved. With Jim Diamond and Simon Phillips he founded the band Ph.D.

In 1984 he turned back to jazz; He played in the trio of Tony Coe , with whom and Hugh Burns and Terry Bozzio he also formed the Lonely Bears from 1991 to 1994 . He also made his Indian album Oyate and his Symphony in A flat , which the London Symphony Orchestra performed in 1995. In the next few years he also worked for Sam Rivers ( Eight Day Journal ) and Michel Portal ( Minneapolis ). With François Corneloup , Jef Lee Johnson and David King he founded the band Ursus Minor in 2003 , with which albums such as Zugzwang (2003), Coup de sang (2006) and I Will Not Take But for an Answer (2010) were created. He also worked with John Taylor ( Aspects of Paragonne ), Ray Russell ( Ready or Not , A Table Near the Band ), John McLaughlin , Bruno Chevillon , Airto and Evan Parker .

Discographic notes

  • Flying Fortress (1984)
  • Oyate (with, inter alia, Jim Pepper , 1990)
  • A Winter's Tale (with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Jacques Thollot , 1992)
  • Correspondances Erik Satie - Claude Debussy (2007)
  • Mark Anderson / Paul Dunmall / Philip Gibbs / Tony Hymas 21st Century V-Bop
  • De l'origine du monde (2010)
  • Chroniques de resistance . Various artists. Nato / Broken Silence, 2014
    • Review of Elise Graton Homage to the Resistance in Die Tageszeitung , December 20, 2014, p. 13

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ u. a. with Hymas' composition Scenes from Life in the Maquis - Scènes de la vie du maquis, about the struggles of Henri Nanot
personal data
SURNAME Hymas, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hymas, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1943