Dick Katz
piano
Jazz pianist active in New York from the 1950s; Barry names him, with Hank Jones, John Lewis and John Bunch, among the pianists he says musicians like him learned from, whom the colleges never asked how to teach.
- mentions
- 2
- recordings
- 2
- Barry speaking
- 2
What Barry says
Barry says teachers are wrong all over the world because the colleges never asked pianists such as Hank Jones, John Lewis, Dick Katz and John Bunch how to teach, though they are the ones musicians like him learned from. The schools goofed, so he and Eli Yamin try to show what is right.
Jazz theory, part 1: key families a minor third apart0:351:12Jazz theory, part 1, with score0:02
In his own words
they didn’t ask John Lewis, they didn’t ask them, Dick [Katz], you know, John Bunch, they didn’t ask any of those cats. And they’re the ones, they’re the ones we learned from.
Every mention
2 moments in the recordings, 2 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Jazz theory, part 1: key families a minor third apart
- 0:35
Caption ‘Dick Cats’: one of the pianists the colleges never asked how to teach, though they taught us.
Jazz theory, part 1, with score
- 0:02
Another transcript of the same lesson opening; again captioned ‘Dick Cats’, named with Lewis, Bunch and Hank Jones.
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.