Piano Man

Earl Hines | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 1995)
• Original Release Date: February 23, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000001HHU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,717 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #70 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz

Track Listings

1. Piano Man

2. Fireworks

3. Skip The Gutter

4. Two Deuces

5. Weather Bird

6. Every Evening

7. Smoke-House Blues

8. Honeysuckle Rose

9. Blues In Thirds (Caution Blues)

10. Save It Pretty Mama

11. A Monday Date

12. Stowaway

13. Chimes In Blues

14. Fifty-Seven Varieties

15. Love Me Tonight

16. The Father's Getaway

17. Chicago Rhythm

18. Rosetta

19. Cavernism

20. Harlem Lament

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Piano man, indeed!, July 21, 2002

By 

George H. Soule (Edwardsville, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Piano Man (Audio CD)

Earl Hines was THE Piano Man. If you read Stanley Dance's book about the Ellington orchestra, almost every member he interviewed cites Earl Hines as an influence--either as bandleader or musician. He was an established musician in 1927-28 when he and Louis Armstrong revolutionized jazz in Chicago with the Hot Fives and he ran a successful orchestra throughout the so called Swing era into the late '40s. The 1947 version of the Hines orchestra accommodated Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. This disc is a retrospective of his career that spans the Hot Five era (1927-1928) through the Swing band period to 1941. The four classics from the Hot Five band include "Weather Bird," the Armstrong-Hines duet that some consider one of the seminal jazz masterpieces. The other, "West End Blues," is sadly not in this collection. Still there are the Bechet-Hines collaboration on "Blues in Thirds" and abundant examples of Hine's solo piano ("A Monday Date," "Stowaway, "Chimes in Blues," "Fifty-Seven," "The Father's Getaway") the stuff that made his reputation as a young man. That in itself is cause enough to own this collection. Here is the man with the virtuoso skills and the left hand that Nat Cole admired. Hines was the master from whom Teddy Wilson learned, a pianist who influenced all of the modern jazz greats. And this anthology also contains his classic "Rosetta" and "Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues." Unfortunately, the collection does not go beyond 1941; consequently, there are no samples of Hines' performances with the Louis Armstrong All Stars (1951) that included Barney Bigard and Jack Teagarden. Nor does it contain Hines' exquisite solo and combo work that he continued until his death in 1983.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars why this is some of the best music you'l lever hear..., September 25, 2000

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HepCatSwinger - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Man (Audio CD)

If you're a jazz collector you'll most likely arleady have all of these sides,however if you just want a sample or intro to one of the great jazz pianists/big band leaders of the 21st century, buy it.