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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>To: Musicians & Jazzfans and DJML lists<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Here's a note from "JazzOnTheTube" with a video link. Also below is an e-mail I wrote to Dick Hyman on his 90th birthday. I pass along for info and interest. Great video of Dick at the piano keyboard.<br><br>Subject: Happy Birthday, Dick Hyman</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Born in New York on March 8th 1927 today marks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>the beginning of jazz piano great Dick Hyman's<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ninetieth year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>20sJazz honors Dick's life long love and dedication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>to music and with his fabulous performance of a tune<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>from Sissle & Blake's 1921 production "Shuffle Along."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Video:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.20sjazz.com/page/25813.html">http://www.20sjazz.com/page/25813.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='color:black'>Here’s a note I sent to Dick Hyman,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='color:black'>Fnv<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Hello Dick—Happy 90th birthday!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I’m reminded of the story about the drunk on reaching an advanced age who said, “If I’d known that I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>But it looks as though you have done just that—( not being a drunk and taking good care of yourself) and that both of us have been lucky at the genetic grab-bag! ( I recently celebrated my 86th and, I’m happy to say my fingers and brain still work reasonably well.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I want to say that your performances at Gibson and Arbors Jazz parties and others ( North Carolina) have given me great pleasure. And our brief personal encounters have also been a treasure to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Let me remind you of a couple of things—I took a photo of you at the Gibson jazz party. This was when you were wearing thick glasses. >From my angle of vision—I was sitting below you—when you would move your head at a certain angle, the reflection of piano keyboard would show on your glasses. Since that was a transient phenomenon, I took a whole roll of film to assure that I did, in fact, capture it. Yes, it was successful and I had prints made—framed one for myself and sent you one, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>At a later Arbors Jazz Party ( you’d had cataract surgery and didn’t need the thick glasses anymore) you were featured pianist and Don Wolff was videoing your fine piano fingerwork—I was always fascinated with your extended, rather than curved, 5th fingers. (The video from JazzOnTheTube shows the extended 5<sup>th</sup> fingers)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>We could see Nat Hentoff, WSJ columnist, about to walk in front of the videocamera. I stood up and put a body-block on Hentoff, thereby preserving the integrity of Wolff’s video. It should be noted that Hentoff subsequently did an excellent job summarizing activities at the Arbors jazz party for the Wall Street Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>At any rate—Happy 90th birthday and best wishes to you and yours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Your grateful fan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Norman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>F.Norman Vickers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>5429 Dynasty Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Pensacola, FL 32504-8583<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Home 850-484-9183; cell 850-324-5022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Jazz Society of Pensacola 850-433-8382<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>www.jazzpensacola.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>nvickers1@cox.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Member Jazz Journalists Association<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>