Earl Hines - Piano Man! (1994)

1. Piano Man
2. Fireworks
3. Skip the Gutter
4. Two Deuces
5. Weather Bird
6. Every Evening
7. Smoke-House Blues
8. Honeysuckle Rose
9. Blues in Thirds (Caution Blues)
10.Save It Pretty Mama
11.A Monday Date
12.Stowaway
13.Chimes in Blues
14.Fifty-Seven Varieties
15.Love Me Tonight
16.The Father's Getaway
17.Chicago Rhythm
18.Rosetta
19.Cavernism
20.Harlem Lament
21.Ridin' a Riff
22.Solid Mama
23.Comin' in Home
24.The Earl
25.Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues

1 - Earl Hines and his Orchestra. Rec. 1939, NY
2-3 - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five Rec. 1928, Chicago
4 - Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Earl Hines (piano)
Rec. as 2-3
5 - Jimmy Noone's Apex Club Orchestra Rec. as 2-3
6 - Omer Simeon (clarinet), Earl Hines (piano)
Rec as 2-3
7 - Earl Hines Quartet Earl Hines (piano),Budd Johnson
(tenor sax),Omer Simeon (clarinet),Wallace Bishop
(drums) Rec. 1929, Chicago
8 - Sidney Bechet (clarinet),Earl Hines (piano),Baby
Dodds (drums) Rec. 1937, Chicago
9 - Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers
Sidney Bechet (clarinet,soprano sax),Earl Hines (piano)
Rex Stewart (cornet),John Lindsay (bass),Baby Dodds
(drums) Rec. 1940, NY
10-13 Earl Hines - piano solo Rec. 10 - 1940, 11-13 - 1928
14-25 Earl Hines and his Orchestra Rec. 1928-1941

Earl Hines has been called the first modern jazz pianist. His style differed from other pianists of the Twenties in his use of what were then considered unusual rhythms and accents. Jelly Roll Morton had set the direction of Jazz piano in the early part of the decade, but after 1926 Hines was at the forefront of the Hot Jazz style. Hines started playing professionally around 1921 in Pittsburgh. In 1923 Hines moved to Chicago where he worked with Deppe's Seranaders, Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra and with Carroll Dickerson. He met Louis Armstrong in 1926, at the local musician's union hall and the two became friends. Hines worked briefly in Louis Armstrong's Stompers and along with Zutty Singleton and Armstrong tried unsuccessfully to manage their own club together in Chicago. 1928 was a productive year for Hines. He recorded his first ten piano solos including versions of "A Monday Date," "Blues in Thirds" and "57 Varieties."

Hines worked much of the year with Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra. Hines joined Louis Armstrong on the Hot Five and Hot Seven recording sessions, playing on the classic "West End Blues," "Fireworks," "Basin Street Blues" and composing " A Monday Date." On his birthday that year, Hines debuted with his first big band. Earl would continue to lead his own big bands until 1948. In 1940 Billy Eckstine became the band's popular singer and in 1943 both Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were added.

In 1948 Hines joined the Louis Armstrong's All-Stars and played with them for three years. In 1951, Hines moved to California and formed a Hot Jazz band to cash in on the Dixieland revival that was going on at the time. He continued the Dixieland band throughout the Fifties, but by the early Sixties, Hines was pretty much out of the Jazz mainstream and forgotten. In 1964 he staged a major comeback that lasted through the rest of his career. --- redhotjazz.com

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