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    Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the...
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    'controlled'] by Al Capone. With Hines as its bandleader, what used to be the Sunset Cafe continued its tradition, introducing under Hines Charlie Parker, Dizzy...
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    introduced to bandleader and pianist Earl Hines, although the details of that introduction are disputed. Billy Eckstine, Hines' singer at the time, has been...
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  • young dancer, Jeri Walker, knew Earl Hines, and when the Hines band came through Detroit in late 1943, she persuaded Hines to hire Gray on alto saxophone...
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  • Armstrong worked with pianist Earl Hines, who had a similar impact on his instrument as Armstrong had on trumpet. Hines' melodic, horn-like conception...
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  • work, over many years, with Earl Hines. It is contended that he and Billy Eckstine, Hines' long-term collaborator, led Hines to hire "modernists" in the...
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    with Earl Hines, which lasted a year. Hartman's first recordings were with Marl Young during that time, though it was his collaboration with Hines that...
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    Carroll Dickerson Orchestra, with Earl Hines on piano, which was renamed Louis Armstrong and his Stompers. However, Hines was the music director, and Glaser...
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  • duties. In 2022, Hines left the Kings organization and announced he would be part of the Raptors' staff. Another UCLA teammate, Earl Watson, was entering...
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  • vocalist for Earl Hines. Josie was born on December 9, 1939, in Clairton, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Pittsburgh). Josie first met Hines in 1968. She toured...
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    hand from Earl Hines, he pursued a lighter and thinner texture with a relatively simple rhythmic ideas and a single melodic device than Hines. Though he...
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  • Earl Hines at Sundown is an album by pianist Earl Hines recorded in France in 1974 for the Black & Blue label. Allmusic reviewer Ken Dryden stated: "The...
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    Earl Hines (piano) Mancy Carr (banjo) Louis Armstrong (trumpet, voice) Fred Robinson (trombone) Jimmy Strong (clarinet, tenor saxophone) Earl Hines (piano)...
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  • Stanley (1983). The World of Earl Hines. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80182-5. Includes a 120-page interview with Hines plus many photos. Elsdon, Peter...
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    interpolated scatting. Heading to Chicago, Illinois, Eckstine joined Earl Hines' Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939, staying with the band as vocalist and...
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    Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI...
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    of the Hines band, "[p]eople talk about the Hines band being 'the incubator of bop' and the leading exponents of that music ended up in the Hines band....
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  • artists as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, and Fletcher Henderson, and white bands from the 1920s led by the likes...
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    "Save Your Love for Me". She worked with Buddy Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard, Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Cedar Walton...
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  • music styles in his jazz music. He was a bass player for Art Blakey, Earl Hines, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk, among others. Abdul-Malik claimed...
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  • "Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals. The song was a hit, reaching...
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    [Jim Hall], Billy Butterfield, Roland Hanna, Clancy Hayes, Buck Hill, Earl Hines, Freddie Hubbard, Lurlean Hunter, Phyllis Hyman, Ahmad Jamal, Dr John...
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  • Armstrong plays trumpet and sings, backed by a band including pianist Earl Hines, clarinetist Jimmy Strong, trombonist Fred Robinson, banjoist Mancy Carr...
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    industry reluctant to take risks), musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines led their own bands, while others, like Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver...
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  • Mississippi river boats.: 313  On December 5, 1928, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded it as a duet between trumpet and piano. That recording is regarded...
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    full.'" Also from A Renegade History of the United States, "The pianist Earl Hines remembered that 'Scarface [Al Capone] got along well with musicians. He...
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  • in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Green worked in the orchestras of Earl Hines and Charlie Ventura, and recorded as bandleader through the 1950s and...
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  • Teddy Wilson 1935–36 512 Louis Armstrong 1936–37 513 Count Basie 1939 514 Earl Hines 1932–34 515 Louis Armstrong 1937–38 516 Cab Calloway 1930–31 517 Chick...
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    learned it. Capone also sent two bodyguards to accompany jazz pianist Earl Hines on a road trip. Capone indulged in custom suits, cigars, gourmet food...
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    Abandon (Impulse!) with Lawrence Brown 1966: Stride Right (Verve) with Earl Hines 1966: Blue Pyramid (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis 1966: Wild Bill Davis...
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