Magic Earl Hines, the most creative of all the pianists
@gloriamosure9184
2 жыл бұрын
Too wonderful!
@jacobzimmermann59
5 жыл бұрын
That's really insane technique, but the most amazing part to me is the detached expression on his face, as if he was just sitting there, listening and wondering about what he heard, just like everyone else.
@MrTolesi
4 жыл бұрын
And see what Hines himself says about this @ kzitem.info/news/bejne/xqF-26OhiXmdmqw . "When you hear the recording you think, 'Oh, I didn't know I could do that!". Hines was an utter genius - and it's a genius film for him - we're all so lucky to have it.
@jacobzimmermann59
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrTolesi That's another amazing thing about Hines' personality, how modest and unassuming he was. It was no false modesty either, he really didn't seem to fully appreciate of his own greatness. When asked about cutting contests, he simply said "I was never a man to challenge anyone" (although according to some sources, he's in fact one of the two jazz pianists who scored a "win" against Tatum at least once, the other being Bud Powell). Then when someone once commented on his playing, he shyly answered that the used an "unusual" left hand technique. Well I guess it's true, being in a class of his own certainly counts as "unusual" :D
@MrTolesi
3 жыл бұрын
@@jacobzimmermann59 The UTTERLY GREAT Hines - and his genuine modesty. I remember reading that when, after WW ll and with the end of the big-band era, someone asked Hines what he was going to do? " I'm going to go into my woodshed and learn how to play the piano", Hines replied - this of the man who had recorded "Weatherbird" and so many others with Armstrong and all the astonishing QRS solo sides etc - already the Hines Count Basie called, "The greatest piano player in the world". And didn't Hines not basically do that, re-emerging 'seriously' at the Little Theatre all those years later: "What is there left to hear after you've heard Earl Hines?", asked The New York Times of those Little Theatre concerts.
@jacobzimmermann59
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrTolesi IIRC Basie said that again much later, and that was at a time when he was close friends with both Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson... yet he still considered Hines to be the greatest. By the same token, when Erroll Garner himself was asked which pianists he looked up to, he said "Hines and Tatum". Yes, he was definitely one of the most awesome jazz piano players of all time.
@56conn6h
6 жыл бұрын
That brings a huge smile to my soul
@pearsnockie
11 жыл бұрын
very great..
@eecorr
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing ☺️👍
@brucatomassimo5816
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastico....
@alvistd2168
3 ай бұрын
That's kind of Tatumsque. No one today can come close...
@victormanuelpadilla1845
3 жыл бұрын
Earl Hines es un excelente pianista!! Efectivamente, tiene una compleja técnica difícil de ejecutar. Sin embargo, la melodía se nota aún con la armonía y los arpegios complejos con fusas y semifusas. Se puede comparar con la técnica de Art Tatum y Oscar Peterson , grandes pianistas legendarios...
@alansouzacruz970
4 жыл бұрын
Magic fingers
@chrisrees5017
2 жыл бұрын
and an incredible mind, which surprised him 'I never knew I could do that' when hearing again one of his performances!
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