Earl Hines at the piano at Ronnie Scott's club.
Earl Hines was born 28 Dec 1903 at Duquesne Virginia. At 17 he played with Lois Depp's Band and made his first recordings with them when he was 22. Then he moved to Chicago and met Louis Armstrong. They played together in Carroll Dickerson's Band which eventually became Louis Armstrong's band under the direction of Earl Hines. Armstrong. Louis was knocked out by Hines's "trumpet style" piano playing. Armstrong and Hines made some of the most memorable records of the era 'West End Blues', 'Tight Like This', & 'Beau Koo Jack'. Hines's solo recordings of this time include 'My Monday Date' and '57 Varieties'. In 1928 on his 25th birthday Earl Hines led his own band or organization as he preferred to call it. The band was a favourite of Al Capone. This band was still in being in 1947, the end of the big band era. One ready made associate was Duke Ellington. He made a series of 'Transformative Versions' of 'Earl Hines plays Duke Ellington'. In 1949 he ran a tobacconist in California before being rediscovered and beginning a new career. From then till he died he recorded endlessly with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, and Louis Armstrong. He died on 28 April 1983.
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