Earl fatha hines' right hand - video

[l p]

video

'Earl Hines & His All Stars - 1965'
Paris Jazz Festival 1965

Ben Webster
Don Byas
Jimmy Woode
Stuff Smith
Roy Eldridge
Kenny Clarke

at  24:30 through 32:03  = 7.5 minutes. i can see why sax players would do this when circular breathing, but it seems weird on a piano. i know hines did this for 2-3 minutes on st. louis blues when he was in louis armstrong's group in the 40's.

after a few minutes, it does become less of an indurance test, and more of 'it's fine, just fine'.

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 02:49 AM by l p

[JSngry]

That should be a permanent installation in all the "jazz programs" in the world, have a holographic Earl Hines doing that and then throw all the happy boys and girls what have been studying their books so hard but have never even heard of Earl Hines up there in it and tell them YOU GOT IT!!!

Pop Quiz, motherfuckers!