Artist: Earl Hines
Album: Four Classic Albums Plus
Genre: Swing
Label: Avid Jazz
Released: 2015
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Monday Date (2:12)
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home (3:25)
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (2:01)
- Lonesome Road (3:55)
- Squeeze Me (4:03)
- Limehouse Blues (2:31)
- West End Blues (4:41)
- Yes, Sir, That's My Baby (3:00)
- Caution Blues (2:23)
- Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (2:38)
- A Closer Walk with Thee (2:36)
- Clarinet Marmalade (2:24)
Paris One Night Stand (1957) - Perdido (3:08)
- Save It, Pretty Mama (2:51)
- Muskrat Ramble (3:03)
- Moonlight in Vermont (3:15)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:24)
- Am I Wasting My Time (4:26)
- You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (2:52)
- Hallelujah (2:56)
- If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) (3:20)
- Walkin' My Baby Back Home (3:25)
- Makin' Whoopee (3:37)
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (4:44)
Earl's Pearls (1960) - Saint Louis Blues Boogie Woogie (4:10)
A Monday Date (1961)
- CD 2:
- Tea for Two (3:30)
- Stealin' Apples (3:03)
- Willow Weep for Me (4:23)
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (2:31)
- Rosetta (3:54)
- Like When the Saints (4:41)
- Satin Doll (3:37)
- Manhattan (3:55)
- You Can Depend on Me (3:27)
- Love Me or Leave Me (4:32)
- The Song Is Ended (4:21)
The Incomparable Earl "Fatha" Hines (1954) - Hollywood Hop (2:42)
- If I Had You (3:14)
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (2:06)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:36)
- Almost Like Being in Love (2:38)
- The Web (3:15)
- A Jumpin' Something (2:48)
- I'm a Little Brownbird Looking for a Bluebird (2:53)
- Humoresque (3:57)
- Pennies from Heaven (1:42)
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (3:46)
- Gone with the Wind (2:50)
Paris One Night Stand (1957) (continued) - Muskrat Ramble (alternate take) (2:38)
Earl's Pearls (1960) (continued)
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AVID Jazz presents four classic Earl “Fatha” Hines albums plus, including original liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
“A Monday Date”; “Paris One Night Stand” “Earl’s Pearls” and “The Incomparable Earl “Fatha” Hines”.
One of the truly great elder statesmen of jazz, Earl “Fatha” Hines was born in 1905 in Duquesne, Pa and inherited a love of music from his father who was a member of the famous Eureka brass band of New Orleans and his mother who was a fine organist. Moving to Chicago in 1922 he soon fell in with another jazz legend Louis Armstrong, with whom he had a long musical and personal relationship. In fact, Hines thought that Louis was even more of an influence on him than the legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton! On our four selections we feature Hines in a number of musical settings from quartet to big band and as the original liner notes to “Paris One Night” attest…”during a long and distinguished career as a recording artist, Earl Hines has made extraordinarily few bad records…if indeed if he has made any at all!” To get a flavour of how Hines sounds here is another quote, this time from “Earl’s Pearls”…… “it may truly be said that Earl Hines plays with perfect “skin” his fingers ranging the keyboard, the harmonies are free and clear, the almost translucent color has an iridescent sheen. That famous “trumpet style” is the Hines hallmark .In effect he is a musical pearl”. Just to clear up where the “trumpet style” came from, we quote from “The Incomparable Earl “Fatha” Hines”….. “He became known as the trumpet style pianist because of his incisive use of octaves that gave his solos a bright, almost brassy quality”. Another of his most typical characteristics was his use of the tremulo much in the manner of a trumpet vibrato”. Of course the best way to hear what “Fatha” sounds like is to grab a copy of this CD and listen and enjoy it for yourself!
All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered.