The world of Earl Hines / Stanley Dance.
| Author/creator | Dance, Stanley |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1977. |
| Description | ix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | World of swing ; v. 2 World of swing ; v. 2. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Earl Hines (piano, bandleader and singer). A bird out of a cage ; A tree full of owls ; See no evil ; A long way from the leader house -- Lois Deppe (singer and bandleader) -- Charlie Carpenter (lyricist and manager) -- George Dixon (trumpet and saxophones) -- Walter Fuller (trumpet) -- Quinn Wilson (bass and arranger) -- Wallace Bishop (drums) -- Irene Kitchings (piano and songwriter) -- Teddy Wilson (piano, arranger and bandleader) -- Milt Hinton (bass) -- Freddy and Irving Goodman (trumpets) -- Jimmy Mundy (arranger and tenor saxophone) -- Budd Johnson (saxophones, clarinet and arranger) -- Trummy Young (trombone) -- Willie Randall (saxophones and arranger) -- John "Streamline" Ewing (trombone) -- Billy Eckstine (singer and trumpet) -- Franz Jackson (tenor saxophone, clarinet and arranger) -- Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet and bandleader) -- Cliff Smalls (piano, trombone and arranger) -- Dicky Wells (trombone and arranger) -- Road stories -- The 1946 band. Capsule biographies -- Appendix -- Chronology -- A representative LP discography. |
| Abstract | Dazzling the world of jazz with his innovative style, Earl Hines has gained recognition as a genius of improvisation, equal in reputation to the legendary Art Tatum. This book has compiled a portrait of the famous pianist--the players around him, the South Side Chicago scene, the rise of the big bands and their collapse--in the compelling and frank form of an oral history. In his own words Earl Hines recalls the story of his phenomenal career and of the different eras of jazz. Notables of the music community such as Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Trummy Young and Budd Johnson tell in their own ways their impressions of Earl Hines as a pianist, bandleader and personality. For years Earl Hines has performed superbly for audiences throughout the western hemisphere. His long career, rich in incident and brilliant in creation, assures us that he will stand among the giants of jazz. Count Basie once said of him, 'Why, Earl can go on for ninety years and never be out of date.' Illustrated with more than 120 photographs. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: page 312. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 313-314. |
| Biographical note | Born in Braintree, England, Stanley Dance first became fascinated with Earl Hines's music in 1928, when the Okeh records with Louis Armstrong were issued in England. He heard him in person for the first time in 1937. After World War II, they met again and corresponded (Hines's "letters" came on tape reels), their careers finally coinciding with Hines's famed Little Theatre concerts in New York. Mr. Dance's first writing about jazz appeared in the bilingual magazine Jazz-Hot, published in Paris. He has written for Down Beat, Melody Maker, Jazz Journal (London) and other magazines. He was a regular contributor to The Saturday Review for ten years, to Music Journal for twelve years. Mr. Dance has also served as a consultant to the major record companies. He is the author of Jazz Era, The Night People (with Dicky Wells), The World of Duke Ellington and The World of Swing. His wife is the jazz critic Helen Oakley. In 1959 they moved to Connecticut. |
| LCCN | 77002269 |
| ISBN | 0684149354 : |
| ISBN | 0684150301 (pbk. :) |