only longstanding boardmembers....

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

I want to know...if you see where I'm comming from, or at least can wrap your mind around a statment I truly stand behind: a statement ive never heard anyone else ever anywhere say, but is more valid to me than selmer is to saxophones, for the record, this statement is:

"EARL HINES IS THE ONLY PERSON I TRUST

TO TEACH ME ABOUT THE HISTORY OF JAZZ"

- Chewy

if i may be so kind to provide a recommended link: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=46870

Edited October 1, 2008 by chewy

[BeBop]

I'd met Hines and got to know him a bit shortly before his passing. I was working on a set of interviews that never came to fruition... Timing. But a hell of a repository of JAZZ knowledge. Bird, Satch, Diz, Wardell, Kermit (Scott), Vi, Jaki, Bud Freeman, Hawk...

[jazzbo]

The man definitely had the jazz in him and lucky for US it streamed streamed out.

[Dave James]

Hold it. How about:

LOU DONALDSON?

Up over and out.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

do you have the interview still, in unreleased form?

[catesta]

if i may be so kind to provide a recommended link: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=46870

Why did you link this to this thread?

[clifford_thornton]

It's chewy. Shouldn't that be self-explanatory?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

nono, that was a mistake- have you seen the EARL HINES EXPLAINS HIS INFLUENCES AND TECNIQUE clips from i think the ralph gleason show on youtube?

[catesta]

nono, that was a mistake- have you seen the EARL HINES EXPLAINS HIS INFLUENCES AND TECNIQUE clips from i think the ralph gleason show on youtube?

Can you provide a link?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

ugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-qIZdB7Hgg

[mikeweil]

There are nice clips from his 1965 Berlin concert, some with Jaki Byard, on youtube. Fatha was one of the three or four greatest timeless jazz pianists!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJRLinVXgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rTrpa_xfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyrzEULLxYs

[Guest Bill Barton]

...Fatha was one of the three or four greatest timeless jazz pianists!...

Agreed! No question about it. Thanks to you and chewy for the links. I heard the brilliant Fatha in performance only once - at an outdoor jazz festival in Vermont - but the music and the experience stayed with me.

[John L]

Same here. I saw the Fatha once in concert in the 70s, and it was really memorable. What a great great musician and artist!

[BillF]

I saw him in concert at St George's Hall, Bradford in 1957 with Jack Teagarden, Max Kaminsky, Peanuts Hucko, Cozy Cole and Jack Lesberg. All I now remember over the passage of time is Hines's clowning; he played a run that went higher and higher until he hit the wood of the piano and writhed with fake pain!

[sidewinder]

St George's Hall, Bradford

Wow - Last time I was in that place was about 1971/72. To see the Halle Orchestra !

[mikeweil]

BTW - I think that teaming of Earl Hines and Jaki Byard for the 1965 Berlin Jazz Festival was one of J.E. Berendt's greatest ideas - there was an LP of them for MPS, too - now that's an item Universal should put on the reissues list!

[gmonahan]

I want to know...if you see where I'm comming from, or at least can wrap your mind around a statment I truly stand behind: a statement ive never heard anyone else ever anywhere say, but is more valid to me than selmer is to saxophones, for the record, this statement is:"EARL HINES IS THE ONLY PERSON I TRUST

TO TEACH ME ABOUT THE HISTORY OF JAZZ"

- Chewy

if i may be so kind to provide a recommended link: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=46870

What?! You mean, you don't trust Wynton?

Greg Mo

[clifford_thornton]

Why would you want one single source for the history as diverse and complex as that of this music?