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Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington Volume Two is a compilation CD featuring recordings by pianist Earl Hines performing compositions by Duke Ellington which follows the first volume of tracks from LPs that Hines recorded for the Master Jazz label in sessions between 1971 and 1974.
Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington is a compilation double album set featuring solo recordings by pianist Earl Hines performing compositions by Duke Ellington which were originally released as a series of four LPs that Hines recorded for the Master Jazz label in four separate sessions between 1971 and 1975 and rereleased on the New ...
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Early life
Earl Hines was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, 12 miles from the center of Pittsburgh, in 1903. His father, Joseph Hines,[nb 3] played cornet and was the leader of the Eureka Brass Band in Pittsburgh, and his stepmother was a church organist. Hines intended to follow his father on cornet, but "blowing" hurt him behind the ears, whereas the piano did not. The young Hines took lessons in playing classical piano. By the age of eleven he was playing the organ in his Baptist church. He had a "good...
Early career
With his father's approval, Hines left home at the age of 17 to take a job playing piano with Lois Deppe and His Symphonian Serenaders in the Liederhaus, a Pittsburgh nightclub. He got his board, two meals a day, and $15 a week. Deppe, a well-known baritoneconcert artist who sang both classical and popular songs, also used the young Hines as his concert accompanist and took him on his concert trips to New York. In 1921, Hines and Deppe became the first African Americans to perform on radio. H...
Chicago years
On December 28, 1928 (his 25th birthday and six weeks before the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre), Hines opened at Chicago's Grand Terrace Cafe leading his own big band, a prestigious position in the jazz world at the time. "All America was dancing", Hines said, and for the next 12 years and through the worst of the Great Depression and Prohibition, Hines's band was the orchestra at the Grand Terrace. The Hines Orchestra – or "Organization", as Hines preferred it – had up to 28 musicians and d...
The Oxford Companion to Jazz describes Hines as "the most important pianist in the transition from stride to swing" and continues: Hines himself described meeting Armstrong: Hines continued: In their book Jazz (2009), Gary Giddinsand Scott DeVeaux wrote of Hines's style of the time: In his book Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Thomas Brothers ...
Balliett, Whitney (1998), American Musicians II: Seventy-Two Portraits in Jazz, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-512116-3.Balliett, Whitney (2000), Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000, London: Granta Books, ISBN 1-86207-465-8.Basie, Count; Murray, Albert (2002), Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306811073, ISBN 978-0306811074.Berliner, Paul F. (1994), Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-04381-9.View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1973 Vinyl release of "Plays Duke Ellington Volume Two" on Discogs.
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 CD release of "Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington Volume Two" on Discogs.
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Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington, Vol. 2 by Earl Hines released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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