Harlem Legend
Moving On Up: The Rise of Earl "Fatha" Hines
Earl "Fatha" Hines has played piano so long, he's been around since before jazz! Hines and Dizzie Gillespie collaborated together for years, and together created that new style of jazz we've been hearing more of lately, known as bebop. Before that, Hines was in Chicago, developing his craft and becoming the penultimate piano player. He's a great band leader, too, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Louis Armstrong, whom we mention on a later page. His bands have as many as 20 musicians on stage at once -- Hines rivals even the great Duke Ellington in his leadership skills. It's likely that Earl Hines will leave us again soon, to settle on the west coast, but his presence in Harlem (however brief) improves our mutual cultural experience regardless. It would, even if he'd only spent a week performing at The Cotton Club. He's even got a club of his own back in Chicago, The El Grotto.
DOES HINES PLAY AT RENT PARTIES?
Most invitations are discreet, so as not to attract too much white attention... guess you've got to get out more to find out!
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The Outside Upbringing of a
For a tour with the Harlem Globetrotters, at the peak of his career!
Playing piano in Pittsburgh "before the word 'jazz' was even invented," Hines says.