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Earl Hines

real name Earl Kenneth Hines

jazz pianist and bandleader

Duquesne, United States · 1903-12-28 – 1983-04-22

Earl Hines is credited on 3,797 releases across 998 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
Born December 28, 1903, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, USA
Died April 22, 1983, Oakland, California, USA.
Performed with Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s developing his so called "trumpet style" (right-hand octaves accompanied by chords with his left). Still based in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s, his big band introduced the singers Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan and featured trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and the saxophonist Charlie Parker. In Armstrong's All Stars from 1948 to 1951, although a period followed in relative obscurity with the pianist leading West Coast Dixieland groups during the 1950s, but Hines' career revived with a 1964 booking at Manhattan's Little Theatre and the renewed interest led to many new recordings.
Commonly known as Earl "Fatha" Hines.

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