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Birth name
  
Richard John Hyde

Name
  
Dick Hyde

Also known as
  
Dick "Slyde" Hyde

Role
  
Musical Artist

Music group
  
The Wrecking Crew

Years active
  
1953–present


Dick Hyde (musician)

Born
  
July 4, 1936 (age 88) Lansing, Michigan, U.S. (
1936-07-04
)

Genres
  
Jazz, funk & soul, folk, world & country, electronic, rock, pop, blues, classical

Instruments
  
Trombone, horn, tuba, trumpet, euphonium, cornet, flute, reed

Similar People
  
Chuck Findley, Ollie Mitchell, Jim Horn, Bud Brisbois, Tony Terran

Occupation(s)
  
multi-instrumentalist

Richard John Hyde (July 4, 1936) is an American trombonist who plays several brass and woodwind instruments. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) Hall of Fame. He has worked as a session musician and sideman for Count Basie, Herbie Hancock, Frank Sinatra, Jaco Pastorius, Steely Dan, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Beach Boys, Tom Waits, Carole King, Madonna, and Donna Summer.

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Biography and career

Hyde was born Richard John in Lansing, the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan, on July 4 1936. He began his trombone studies in fourth grade when he was living in Bluffton Indiana and later in Los Angeles California. He now lives in Hawaii with his wife Yolanda (Yolee) of 42 years in Hawi, Hawaii. Hyde continued his studies first at the Los Angeles City College and then at the Navy School of Music, which at the time was located at the Naval Receiving Station of Anacostia, on the Anacostia River in Maryland. He served and toured with the United States Navy Band, based at the historic Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., where he met saxophonist Jay Migliori, who helped him to take the first steps towards his professional career.

Hyde made his recording debut on the 1960 big band vocal album, Two Much!, with Ann Richards singing backed by Stan Kenton and his Orchestra. Since then he has toured and recorded hundreds of albums with rock, pop, jazz artists, including Ralph Marterie, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Harry James (1960–1961), Roger Wagner Orchestra and Chorale (1966), Carole King (1973), Jaco Pastorius (1982–1983), Frank Sinatra (1987–1989). He has recorded with jazz big bands and artists such as Henry Mancini, Bill Conti, Allyn Ferguson, Johnny Mandel, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Thelma Houston, Cannonball Adderley, Tom Scott, folk artists like Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson, and popular music acts such as Neil Diamond, Donna Summer, The Pointer Sisters, The Beach Boys, Helen Reddy, Earth, Wind & Fire, Supertramp, Madonna among many others.

Recipient of four NARAS MVP awards in 1974, 1984, 1986, and 1988 respectively, and MVP Emeritus, his style is strongly influenced by American trombonists J. J. Johnson and Carl Fontana.

Awards

Hyde is four-time NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, also known as The Recording Academy) MVP (Most Valuable Player) winner and MVP Emeritus in the NARAS Hall of Fame. He won the award for Best Trombone Player in 1974, for Best Tuba Player in 1984, for Best Bass Trombone Player in 1986, and for Best Double Brassist Player in 1988.

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