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Earl Hines Trio.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- RTBF Archives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swing.
- United States and Canada.
- Jazz.
- Concerts.
- Jazz music.
- Musical performances.
- Music.
- Local Subjects:
- Swing.
- United States and Canada.
- Jazz.
- Concerts.
- Jazz music.
- Musical performances.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Performance
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (40 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1966.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Earl Hines was a true original, a daring musician who practically invented the basic vocabulary of jazz piano. With his classic work alongside Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s, heard on such classic recordings as "West End Blues," "Muggles" and the momentous trumpet-piano duet "Weather Bird," Hines established the pianistic framework that all following generations have drawn from. His historic collaborations with Armstrong, as well as clarinetist Jimmie Noone, set a standard that inspired such keyboard greats as Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie and Art Tatum, all of whom revered Hines. Ever open to new jazz visions, Hines later formed a big band that, in its early-1940s edition, featured a young Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. During the early 1960s Hines found himself the subject of a fresh burst of attention, with critics and attentive listeners thrilling to his renewed inventiveness and vigor. Here, in concert with an attentive bass and drum team, Hines demonstrates that his prodigious gifts had not deserted him. Romping through such standards as "I’ve Got the World On a String," "Black Coffee" and a rampaging "St. Louis Blues"– as well as the period piece "I’m a Little Brown Bird Looking for a Bluebird," which Hines also sings with modest charm, and a Fats Waller medley–the piano genius and his trio are in superb form. Ever jubilant, delighted with his own virtuosity and originality, Hines continually displays the joyful brilliance that made him a living legend. Steve Futterman
- Notes:
- Performed Comblain La Tour Jazz Festival
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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