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Earl

American jazz pianist (1903–1983)

Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".

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Earl

what: one person
from: Duquesne
born: 1903
until: 1983
on the air here: 0 songs
still after: 4 songs

File card: Earl

real name: Earl Kenneth Hines

labels: Apollo Records, Columbia Records, Decca

genres: jazz

plays: piano

member of: Earl Hines and His Orchestra

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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, 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 11, he was playing the organ in his Baptist church. He had a "good ear and a good memory" and could replay songs after hearing them in theaters and park concerts: "I'd be playing songs from these shows months before the song copies came out. That astonished a lot of people and they'd ask where I heard these numbers and I'd...

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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 (later a member of the Detroit McKinney's Cotton Pickers), a well-known baritone concert 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.

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The Oxford Companion to Jazz describes Hines as "the most important pianist in the transition from stride to swing" and continues:

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American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Born December 28, 1903, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA Died April 22, 1983, Oakland, California, USA. Performed with in the late 1920s developing his so called "trumpet style" (right-hand octaves accompanied by chords with his left). Still based in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s, his big band introduced the singers and and featured trumpeter and the saxophonist . In Armstrong's All Stars from 1948 to 1951, although a period followed in relative obscurity with the pianist leading West Coast Dixieland groups during the 1950s, but Hines' career revived with a 1964 booking at Manhattan's Little Theatre and the renewed interest led to many new recordings. Commonly known as Earl "Fatha" Hines. Also known as: "Young" Earl Hines, C. Hines, Dean Hines, E Hines, E. Fatha Hines From Discogs (free to use). Their entry