Dick Katz

A versatile pianist and arranger, Dick Katz continues to be in charge of many stimulating and memorable recordings over time, often as a significant sideman and/or manufacturer. He studied on the Peabody Institute, the Manhattan College of Music, and Juilliard, furthermore to acquiring piano lessons from Teddy Wilson. In the 1950s, he found important knowledge as an associate of the home rhythm portion of the Café Bohemia, using the sets of Ben Webster and Kenny Dorham, the Oscar Pettiford big music group, and afterwards with Carmen McRae. Katz was area of the well-known J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding Quintet (1954-1955) and Orchestra USA and participated on Benny Carter’s traditional Further Definitions record. He provides freelanced throughout a lot of his profession and was a guiding power behind a few of Helen Merrill’s finest recordings. Katz, who used Roy Eldridge and Lee Konitz beginning in the past due ’60s, co-founded Milestone Information in 1966 with Orrin Keepnews. In the 1990s, Dick Katz proved helpful both being a pianist and an arranger using the American Jazz Orchestra and Loren Schoenberg’s big music group. Unfortunately, he hasn’t recorded everything that frequently being a head, cutting pretty obscure schedules for Atlantic (1957 and 1959), BeeHive (1984), and Tank (1992), however the jazz globe is well alert to his talents.