Artist: Earl Hines
Album: Tour de Force
Genre: Swing
Label: Black Lion Records
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Mack the Knife (take 2) (Weill-Brecht-Blitzstein) - 7:34
- Indian Summer (Herbert-Dubin) - 5:34
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Arlen-Koehler) - 6:46
- I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You) (take 1) (Pitt-Eagen-Marsh-Whiteman) - 4:50
- When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) - 6:50
- Pretty Baby (Van Alstyne-Jackson-Kahn) - 2:50
- Say It Isn't So (Berlin) - 7:15
- Blue Sands (take 1) (Hines) - 4:59
- Lonesome Road (Shilkret-Austin) - 7:13
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Pianist Earl Hines is in top form on this brilliant set of solo piano. This CD (which has three previously unreleased performances along with five of the six numbers from its counterpart LP) and Tour de Force Encore greatly expand upon the original set. Whether it be "Mack the Knife," "Indian Summer," or "I Never Knew," Hines is near the peak of his creativity on this CD, taking wild chances with time and coming up with fresh new variations on these veteran standards.
Review by Scott Yanow